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Monday, April 14, 2008

BREAKING: RABBI YEHUDA KOLKO PLEADS GUILTY

EXPOSEMOLESTERS CHIMES IN WITH SOME THOUGHTS:

This is a bittersweet victory:

The sweet:

1) A guilty plea opens the floodgates for civil lawsuits against Kolko/YTT/Margo

2) Victims don't have to go through the agony of testifying

3) KOLKO IS GUILTY - eat drek to all those who said kolko was innocent

5) 555 ocean pkwy is going to get their a$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$es whooped

The bitter:

1) Kolko sentence way too lenient (no jail time)

2) Kolko will NOT have to register as a sex offender

3) Kolko has destroyed so many lives and deserved a harsher sentence

4) The District Attorney's office handled this with kid gloves and it reeks very badly (are they protecting the Jewish community?)

5) The silence of the Haredi community, and its adamant refusal to cooperate with law enforcement, has weakened the state's case.

You pathetic worms of Satan! How dare you stand by the blood of your neighbor! To the parents who are still sending their kids to YTT; and to the rest of Haredi Drek Society, have you no shame? You would rather not call the police if someone is raping a child. I know you putzes like a book. I know how irrational your mind thinks and doesn't think. You're all just punks and thugs who worship a Torah different than that of Moses.

Haredi Drek Society (HDS) is made up of a mix of rotten apples. They include but are not limited to the following: Agudah Fressers, enablers of abuse, abusers, molesters, penetrators, Weasels, and the silent ones (Iyov- remember what happened to him?)

There are many good Jews in the world. Haredi, MO, RE, CO, and Hassidic. However, a large percentage cases of child abuse are being discovered and then quickly covered up - primarily in the Haredi villages and streets. There are too many of such cases that exist. Why has the frum community not responded in protecting the victims? In a heartbeat they excuse and protect alleged Haredi sexual offenders. What unbelievable hypocrisy! Children have basic human rights like you and I, do they not?

Whew... these bigoted shysters from HDS can make any sane person go insane. Did G-D intend Judaism to be one sadistic cult of lies and deceit? Did he want a Jew to act like a robot all the time; or was he hoping that they could think for themselves once in a while when the need arises?

All that being said, the other factor in the equation - is the Brooklyn District Attorney angle. I'm still of a belief that the DA went way too easy on Kolko and I'd like to find out why? Did the Haredi weasels use their clout with Charlie Hynes for the upcoming elections? Let's not forget that this is the same Hynes who refused to make an extradition request from Israel to extradite Avrohm Mondrowitz who was indicted in 1984. That is until 23 years later when they finally did file the paperwork. When asked why so long? Hynes through his spokesperson lied and said that only now (as opposed to many years ago) did Israel amend its laws to encompass male rape as an extraditable offense.

Final synopsis:

Until the corrupt Haredi leadership is replaced by new blood, and until putz drek society stops weaseling out of their moal and ethical obligations, the flock of sheep being led by this runaway train of bogus Jewish leadership will rear its ugly head over and over and over and over and over again - and I'm not sure we have seen the worst of it yet.

29 comments:

Agudath Israel of America
said...

Are you including us in the Haredi Drek Society?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agudath_Israel_of_America

Agudath Israel of America (or Agudas Yisroel of America or Agudat Yisrael of America or simply the Agudah [agudah is Hebrew for "gathering" or "union"]), is a Haredi Jewish communal organization in the United States loosely affiliated with the international World Agudath Israel.

Functions

Agudah in the United States has been very successful in retaining its major Hasidic factions, with members from the Ger Hasidim in America working together within the organization and its non-Hasidic Lithuanian rosh yeshivas as partners. Agudah represents many members of the yeshiva world, sometimes known by the old label of mitnagdim, as well as sectors of Hasidic Judaism; all are commonly known as Haredim or "ultra-Orthodox" Jews representing Torah Judaism in North America. Not all Hasidic Jewish groups are affiliated with Agudath Israel. For example, the Hasidic group Satmar dislikes Agudah's relatively moderate stance towards the State of Israel.

It has ideological connections with both the Agudat Israel party and with Degel HaTorah (Hebrew, "Flag of Torah"), two Israeli Orthodox Jewish political parties that have representation in the Knesset (Israel's parliament). In Israel, Degel and Agudah are in a political coalition called United Torah Judaism (UTJ).

AIA is also a part of the World Agudath Israel organization, which convenes international conferences and religious conclaves.

[edit] History

The original Agudath Israel movement was established in Europe in 1912 by some of the most famous Orthodox rabbis of the time, including the Chafetz Chaim,Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzenski of Vilna, Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky, and Rabbi Meir Shapiro. It grew during the 1920s and 1930s to be the political, communal, and cultural voice of those Orthodox Jews who were not part of Zionism's Orthodox Jewish Mizrachi party. See more information at World Agudath Israel.

Rabbi Eliezer Silver, an Eastern European-trained rabbi, established the first office of Agudath Israel in America during the 1930s, organizing its first conference in 1939. After the Holocaust, some prominent rabbis made their home in America who established a moetzes ("[supreme] council") and the movement began to grow rapidly with the rise of the yeshiva-based and Hasidic Orthodox communities.

Mike Tress lead the expansion of the movement during the early 1900s until his death during the mid-1960s as its chief lay leader. His cousin Rabbi Moshe Sherer then took control. He was succeeded by Rabbi Shmuel Bloom after his death in the 90s.

In 2007, it was among over 530 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $30 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.[1] Since 2002, the Carnegie Corporation has donated more than $115 million.[2]

[edit] Structure

Agudah's policies and leadership are directed by its Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah : Council of Torah Sages, comprised primarily of Rosh yeshivas (the chief spiritual and scholarly authority in a yeshiva) and Hasidic rebbes (who head Hasidic dynasties and organizations). The Moetzes sets all major policies and guides the organization according to its precepts of Daat Torah ("Torah knowledge/direction")

The organization has a lay staff, many of whom are also ordained rabbis, but not of a caliber comparable to the rosh yeshivas and rebbes. After the passing of Rabbi Moshe Sherer, its last significant "lay" leader, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow who is also the Novominsker rebbe and a member of the Moetzet, was appointed as the Rosh Agudat Yisrael ("Head of Agudath Israel"). The past Noviminsker Rebbe, Rabbi Nochum Perlow was considered a key figure in the Agudah. The present official head is now his son, also known as the Noviminsker Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow who works closely with his fellow leaders on the Moetzet.

The staff includes Rabbi Shmuel Bloom as the Executive Vice President, Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel as the Executive Vice President of Government and Public Affairs and Rabbi Shlomo Gertzulin as the Chief Financial Officer.

There are AIA-affiliated synagogues across the United States and in Canada.

[edit] Positions

The AIA takes sides on many political, religious, and social issues, primarily guided by its Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah. It uses these stances to advise its members, to lobby politicians, and to file amicus briefs. See below, under "Activities".

In 1956 for example, the moetzes issued a written ruling forbidding Orthodox rabbis to join with any Reform or Conservative rabbis in rabbinical communal professional organizations that then united the various branches of America's Jews, such as the Synagogue Council of America. This position was not endorsed by the Modern Orthodox. Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik of Yeshiva University had initially aligned himself with Agudah but later established his independent views on these matters and a host of other issues, such as attitudes towards college education and attitudes towards the secular-led Israeli governments. Rabbi Soloveitchik felt it important to nurture the modern Rabbinical Council of America (RCA). However, at times, a few of the more traditionalist rabbis at Yeshiva University aligned themselves with Agudah's positions.

[edit] Activities

[edit] Political activity

With its head office in Manhattan and the bulk of its members living in the New York-New Jersey area, the Agudah ensures that it monitors and intercedes on behalf of causes important to it in the politics of New York City, its five boroughs, and in the state government of New York State.

With the growth of Orthodox Judaism throughout the country, AIA also has active branches in Chicago, Ohio, Maryland, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Texas, Florida and California where they lobby the judicial and legislative branches of these state, and local governments on any issue it deems important morally or religiously or important to its constituency. Agudath Israel's National Director of Government Affairs is Rabbi Yehiel Mark Kalish who manages the state government effort under Zwiebel. It also has a representative at the United Nations and in Washington DC.

AIA also files amicus briefs in cases at all levels of the judiciary, often signing on as one of many organization signatories to a brief authored by Nat Lewin or COLPA.

[edit] Social services

Agudah maintains a network of summer youth camps attended by several thousand children. It has a number of social service branches that cater to the elderly, poor, or disabled. It has a job training program called COPE, a job placement division, and a housing program. The Agudah is also responsible for the funding of many other national institutions and projects, including the Bais Yaakov girls' school system, the National Siyum Mishnayos, the national Daf Yomi Commission, and countless others. In addition, there are hundreds of local "Agudah" synagogues scattered in communities throughout the country, all of which are affiliated with AIA.

I believe you are calling me a lier. I maintain that until Jan 2007, I have no recollection of a treaty with Israel in place to extradite Mr. Mondrowitz. I know what your next question to me is. Why didn't we push for an extradition anyway? why did we let it sit for 23 years? Do we have a conscience? Had it been one of our children who Mondrowitz raped, would we push off a request to the Israeli authorities to extradite an indicted child molester for over two long decades?

These are all legitimate questions and right now we have no answers for you.---

Prosecutors in Brooklyn said yesterday they were pursuing the extradition of a man who fled to Israel more than 20 years ago after being accused of molesting young boys.

The man, Avrohom Mondrowitz, 59, was indicted in 1985 on eight counts of child abuse and five counts of sodomy involving four boys ages 9 to 15. He left for Israel before he could be arrested.

Michael Lesher, a lawyer for six other men who said they had been molested by Mr. Mondrowitz, said that Mr. Mondrowitz was believed to have sexually assaulted boys while posing as an educator or psychological counselor in Borough Park, Brooklyn.

Jerry Schmetterer, a spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, said that Mr. Hynes’s office had asked the State Department to extradite Mr. Mondrowitz.

Mr. Hynes’s predecessor, Elizabeth Holtzman, requested Mr. Mondrowitz’s extradition in 1985, but at the time the offenses did not qualify as grounds for extradition under Israeli law, according to a memo written by federal officials and obtained by Mr. Lesher. Mr. Schmetterer said that in January a new extradition treaty went into effect that allowed the request.

A State Department spokeswoman referred questions about the status of the request to the Justice Department. A spokeswoman there, Jaclyn Lesch, said the department did not comment on extradition matters.

Messages left for Mr. Mondrowitz on his cellphone and at his home in Israel were not immediately returned.

Amy Neustein, an author who is editing a book on rabbis and pedophilia, who has researched Mr. Mondrowitz’s case, said that Mr. Mondrowitz claimed to have a degree in psychology from a New York university but that the university stated in writing that he had never been a student there. She said that he also posed as a rabbi, but that his credentials were from a nonexistent rabbinical school.

Mr. Lesher said that the case was particularly troubling because Mr. Mondrowitz belonged to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect whose members were reluctant to report his offenses to secular authorities.

Rabbi Mark Dratch, who operates the Jewish Institute Supporting an Abuse-Free Environment, a nonprofit organization in New York, said, “Social pressure in the community had a real stifling effect, a silencing effect, not to cooperate with the investigation.” He said that such pressure allowed Mr. Mondrowitz “to continue his activities for a while and escape the jurisdiction.”

In a statement provided by Mr. Lesher, a man who said he had been one of Mr. Mondrowitz’s victims said: “It’s now over 20 years and nothing has been done! I know the pain and torture that I go through on a daily basis.”

The man, whose name Mr. Lesher did not release to protect his privacy, added, “Knowing that this monster is still out there among children just adds insult to injury.”

Mr. Lesher said he hoped that the case against Mr. Mondrowitz, if resolved, could help prevent future molestations.

“I want it to be an example of what it looks like when you do try to sweep something under the rug, and 23 years later it comes back from the dead,” he said. He added, “Had we looked at this kind of case differently to begin with, and said, ‘Let’s go to the police and stop this man as soon as we can,’ how many of these men wouldn’t be victims at all?”

Excerpts from past Forward article (July, 2006):Rabbi Avrohom Mondrowitz was indicted in 1984 on four counts of sodomy and eight counts of sexual abuse in the first degree after years as a school counselor in the Brooklyn Orthodox community. Three of Mondrowitz's alleged victims, who had not been aware of the original investigation.

The district attorney preceding Hynes had pushed for Mondrowitz's extradition from Israel in the 1980s, but Hynes dropped the effort after he was elected in 1989, according to recently released government documents. The new set of victims to come forward say they are pained by Mondrowitz's continuing freedom, and the lack of effort by Hynes and the Orthodox community in pursuing the suspected abuser.

Mondrowitz has been a teacher at the Jerusalem College of Engineering, posting his lectures and syllabi online.

A spokesman for Hynes, Jerry Schmetterer, said the Brooklyn district attorney's office is ready to arrest Mondrowitz if he ever returns to the United States. But Schmetterer says the D.A.'s office is hamstrung by Israeli law, which in the 1980s did not classify Mondrowitz's alleged crime ” sodomy ” as rape. For extradition to go forward, the crime generally must be punishable in both countries. In fact, the Israeli rape law was changed in 1988 to include sodomy, but Schmetterer said the extradition treaty cannot be used retroactively.

Our position is that he cannot be extradited; he could not be extradited then, and he cannot be now, Schmetterer said.

That line of legal reasoning was explicitly rejected by the American embassy in Tel Aviv, soon after the Israeli law was changed. In a cable to the State Department, the embassy said that they had talked with officials in the Israeli Justice Ministry and determined that because Mondrowitz could eventually be charged under American rather than Israeli law, the retroactivity should not be an issue. The new law presents us, we believe, with an opportunity to reopen the extradition case of Avrohom Mondrowitz, the embassy said.

I don't think the D.A. is being aggressive enough, said Douglas McNabb, who specializes in international extradition at a Washington, D.C., law firm. If I were a victim I would be very upset that the D.A.'s office is not pursuing this matter.

The extradition was a clear priority for Hynes's predecessor, Elizabeth Holtzman. Her office pushed the State Department on the matter. At one point the Israeli government signed a deportation order, but the situation ended in a stand off, according to a State Department memo. When Hynes took office, and his assistants were asked if they wanted to pursue the case, one of those assistants informed the State Department that they would not be pursuing the case any further at this time, according to another memo.

Schmetterer said that the Brooklyn D.A.'s office dropped the issue after knowing for years that it could not pursue Mondrowitz.

Anti-abuse activists in the Orthodox community say Hynes's silence may have been due to pressure from the Orthodox community, which they claim has historically been reluctant to see alleged sex offenders prosecuted.

One member of Hynes's Jewish council, Rabbi Herbert Bomzer, said he does not remember Mondrowitz's extradition being discussed by the council. Bomzer did say that he knew Mondrowitz when the younger man was a counselor at Yeshiva University's high school, and that Mondrowitz had been loved by the students.

When asked if he would now support extradition proceedings, Bomzer, president of the rabbinical board of Flatbush, said: If he has managed to get to Israel and is protected by the law there then leave it alone.

On of the alleged victim of Mondrowitz, said that from the beginning it had been clear that many members of the Orthodox community wanted him to let the case go. He said he had been molested when his father sent him to spend a week with Mondrowitz at a difficult moment in Weiss's adolescence. During that week, Mondrowitz's family was in the Catskills and, Weiss claimed, each night he was coaxed into bed by Mondrowitz.

What's difficult to think about is that he was so smooth ” so manipulative, Weiss said. It was as if it was all my choice.

The survivor said that he blocked the experience out for years, but a run-in with Mondrowitz during high school conjured up the memories and led to a breakdown. He first told his parents, but they told him he must be mistaken. He's a frum man, Weiss remembers his parents saying, using a Yiddish word meaning religiously observant.

A few years later, a principal at the yeshiva that Mondrowitz had attended summond Weiss ” but after giving over the details, Weiss said, nothing happened.

The incident faded into the background for many years, but in 2001, The Survivor was drawn out by what was billed as a night for healing at a New York school for Orthodox boys. The Survivor showed up with high hopes, but he says that the event turned into a series of speeches by rabbis who spoke in allegorical terms, rather than dealing with the victims in the room.

The Survivor decided to go outside the Orthodox community when he read an article in New York Magazine last month, detailing the case of Rabbi Yehuda Kolko, a teacher at an Orthodox boys school in Flatbush who was sued by alleged former victims. Kolko has not yet filed opposition papers.

The second alleged Mondrowitz victim, who has already gone to Hynes and who wishes to remain anonymous also said it was the Kolko article that prompted him to step forward. For both, the hope is that Mondrowitz will be brought to justice and made an example of, in the words of the second accuser.

I want to show that abusers can't get away with it, that we as a community will no longer stand for the routine cover-ups of abuse, and to try to put some finality to that chapter of my life, he said.

It is likely that the new complaints would not be included in the counts, if Mondrowitz is arrested, due to the statute of limitations. But the men both say they hope their voices will increase the pressure on Hynes.

King County's (Brooklyn) District Attorney Charles Hynes writes for the Jewish Press. His roots are with the ultra-orthodox communities; and I don't think he wants to ruffle any feathers. He needs them. They need him. Good deal. They Shake hands.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Your silence and refusal to cooperate has earned you a spot on the latest "Final Destination" movie sequel. Watch the movie(s) and you'll know what the devil has in store for you.

I think Belsky should next time order either the Croque Monsieur (A classic French ham sandwich accented with cream sauce and Swiss, baked to a golden brow) or the Shrimp Crêpe Florentine (Shrimp, tomatoes and spinach mixed with pesto* cream sauce in a light crêpe. Served with garlic mashed potatoes and green beans almondine. Available a la carte)

They are both known to be easy on the intestines (but harsh on the calories hehehe..)

NEW ROCHELLE - Howard Bryks wanted to attend the funeral of Jacob and Deborah Rubenstein on Sunday. But he was sitting shiva after his own mother died, and it is traditional not to leave home during the mourning period. The man he would have turned to for guidance was Jacob Rubenstein, his spiritual leader at the Young Israel of Scarsdale for a quarter-century.

"He didn't have his rabbi to ask," said his wife, Chanie.

That was just one of the simpler ways congregants felt profound loss since learning Saturday morning that the Rubensteins had perished when a fire engulfed their home at 43 Baraud Road in New Rochelle.

"They were just a fantastic couple, good friends," said Robert Rimberg, who joined the congregation 15 years ago. "He really acted the way a Jew is supposed to and was a role model for all those who knew him."

Last night, the community was to begin its healing process with a lecture from Norman Blumenthal, director of bereavement and crisis-intervention services for the organization Chai Lifeline. There was also advice planned for parents on how to help their children cope with the deaths.

Shiva is being observed through Friday afternoon at the Teaneck, N.J., home of Daniel Rubenstein, one of the couple's four grown children.

New Rochelle fire officials said that the blaze was still under investigation, but it appears to have been sparked by a lightning strike that hit the split-level home about 1:40 a.m. Saturday.

Fire Commissioner Ray Kiernan said the flames festered undetected in the attic for nearly two hours, while the Rubensteins slept unknowingly underneath.

"The fire was all in the top over the living quarters, and then dropped in on top of them," Kiernan said. "They were just in an atmosphere that was just totally super-heated gas. They didn't have a chance to survive."

It wasn't until about 3:30 a.m. that a neighbor noticed the flames and dialed 911. By then, Kiernan said three-quarters of the roof was gone, and Jacob and Deborah Rubenstein lay dead inside - the 58-year-old rabbi in the bedroom and his wife in an entrance hallway, possibly after a futile attempt to get to safety.

Kiernan said the home did not have a hard-wired fire alarm system and was so heavily damaged that fire inspectors have been unable to determine if there had been smoke detectors involved.

"Even if they had smoke detectors downstairs, the smoke wouldn't come down necessarily right away," he said. "It would all be over the top of the smoke detectors. So that's why getting something in your attic is a good idea."

Kiernan said the tragedy should serve as a lesson to other homeowners, who should consider wiring attics with fire alarms or at least installing smoke detectors to provide an early alert.

He said it was unknown if the home had a lightning rod, but he cautioned that that alone might not be enough protection - as when six homes were struck by lightning in one day on July 21, 2006.

"Lightning is crazy," Kiernan said. "I've seen it hit a tree in the backyard and then come into the house sideways. I don't know if anything is really fool-proof."

The sudden tragedy left a congregation struggling to understand how the pair could die in such a fashion, although one longtime friend said in his eulogy that they had to die together because they could not live life without each other.

The Rubensteins met while in college in Jerusalem in the late 1960s, around the time five families began the Young Israel of Scarsdale out of the same Baraud Road home the couple would eventually move into and raise a family. After marrying, they settled in the Northeast as he led congregations in Providence, R.I., and Milford, Mass., before taking the Young Israel pulpit nearly 25 years ago.

Both Rubensteins touched many lives beyond the synagogue's New Rochelle and Scarsdale neighborhoods. He was a past president of the Westchester Board of Rabbis and the Rabbinical Council of America, the country's largest association of Orthodox rabbis.

Deborah Rubenstein, 59, was a former school principal in Queens and in recent years taught Hebrew school at Temple Israel in New Rochelle and Temple Beth Abraham in Tarrytown.

"The rabbi was always there for us and our needs, every day involved in doing things for us," Chanie Bryks said. "It had to take away from his family that they shared him with us. And that was her strength. Above everything else that she did, she was there for her family."

Rimberg said there was no mystery why the synagogue has grown to 400 families since its modest beginning - it was the rabbi. "That's what people were attracted to," he said.

He said Rubenstein was a great friend you looked forward to seeing two or three times a week, whether at Saturday prayer services or the Judaic studies classes he taught on weekdays. Their bond was solidified during the annual trips to Israel the rabbi led for men in the congregation. "He showed us what Israel was about, what Israel meant," Rimberg said.

Each year at Purim, when Jews traditionally give gifts of food to their friends, the Rubensteins always had a theme for their baskets - often including delicacies from a particular region and a history of Jewish life in those places.

Bryks said she wondered this year what the couple would come up with, figuring that in 25 years they probably covered all the regions of the world. She laughed when she got her gift - the couple had picked Dunkin' Donuts.

"I told him he was so creative - he said: 'It's all Debbie," Bryks said.

The rabbi shined at all moments, she said - holiday sermons, bar and bat mitzvahs, funerals. Bryks said she once told him that she wanted him to deliver her eulogy because he always captured the essence of a person.

Where is that Rav that is related to kolko and said he was innocent? You know who you are. The same one who refused to cooperate in bringing down another child molester, Yehuda Nussbaum. What's the matter now. You're going to say kolko pleaded guilty to avoid a chilul hashem? It wasn't done leshem shomayim. Enablers such as yourself help feed the fuel that child molesters thrives on. Shame on you!

This spring season, the Orthodox Union's Our Way program will bring its popular and meaningful Shabbaton program for Jewish deaf and their families to Palm Harbor (near Tampa), May 16-17. The Shabbaton is designed to meet the specific needs of the deaf and hearing impaired and to provide them with a one-of-a-kind Sabbath experience. It will be held at Young Israel/Chabad of Pinellas County, 3696 Fisher Rd.

Highlights of the Shabbaton include the presence of a Deaf Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi David Kastor. Rabbi Kastor graduated from Gallaudet University with a BA in Computer Science and received his semicha (rabbinical ordination) from Ner Israel in Baltimore. While in Maryland, he started the Ahavas Israel School of the Deaf, located in Frederick, and taught there for two years. Rabbi Kastor has worked for Our Way as Regional Representative of Maryland for more than 18 years. He is married to an Israeli deaf woman, Tchia.

The Shabbaton Host is Daniel Goldberg, who is deaf and is a fluent American Sign Language signer, and who was active in Our Way New England for four years. “I am excited to see a deaf Shabbaton coming to the Tampa area, where there have not been interpreted temple services or events in the past 15 years that I have lived there. I welcome all Jewish deaf to come and share in this special event,” he said.

Along with special programming, the Our Way Shabbaton will provide three delicious meals and snacks; an interpreted synagogue service; a beginner’s prayer service; child care; and an opportunity to join together with others from the deaf community to live and learn about Judaism.

To attend, send an application and check for $35 by May 12 to Our Way Shabbaton, c/o Daniel Goldberg, P.O. Box 270997, Tampa, FL 33688.For more information contact Mr. Goldberg by TTY relay telephone at 813-960-7978 or video phone at 813-249-1659 or by email at djgpatriots05@verizon.net or Sharon Siegel by voice phone at 727-729-5838.

For information on Our Way national programs, contact Rabbi Eliezer Lederfeind, Director of Our Way, at 212-613-8234 or email ourway@ou.org.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008WorldNetDailyRabbi reveals video of debate that 'didn't happen'Says 'man as honorable as Dawkins will correct the error'Posted: April 14, 200810:27 pm Eastern

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

There are a wide range of issues on which the faithful and atheists have difficulty finding common ground, and to that now can be added reality.

That's after Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the host of the daily "The Rabbi Shmuley Show" on XM Satellite Radio and author of 19 books, posted on his website an excerpt of a debate with atheist Richard Dawkins, after Dawkins announced he never had debated Rabbi Shmuley.

On his website Rabbi Schmuley posted a response to Dawkins' comment.

"A friend recently called my attention to the official website of Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous atheist, where, as a way of assailing me, he denied having ever debated me," he wrote.

Dawkins' actual comment on his website followed a question about his debates with Boteach....

By Jessica Fargen | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Around the NationPhotoPhoto by AP

On the heels of Pope Benedict XVI’s bold statements this morning that he’s “ashamed” of the clergy sex abuse crisis and wants to bar pedophile priests, Boston victims and Catholic critics are speaking out and demanding more action from the visiting pontiff.

“There has to be more substance to what’s he’s saying,” said Mitchell Garabedian, the Boston attorney who represented dozens of clergy sex abuse victims who sued the Boston Archdiocese. “He actually has to take steps. He has to let victims and the public know what those steps are.

“The words are fine, but we need action.’‘

Garabedian is holding a press conference today with six clergy abuse victims and their families, which was planned before Bene dict made his comments. Prior to his arrival in Washington D.C. today, Benedict told reporters aboard the papal airplane that he was “deeply ashamed” of the U.S. sex abuse scandal and will work to make sure pedophiles don’t become priests.

“We will absolutely exclude pedophiles from the sacred ministry,” Benedict said, speaking in English. “It is more important to have good priests than many priests. We will do everything possible to heal this wound.”

Ray Flynn, the former Boston mayor and former Ambassador to the Vatican, said Benedict has given the sex abuse crisis his “highest priority” on this visit by making it the subject of his first public comments.

“I don’t think he could be stronger,” said Flynn, speaking from Washington D.C. where he’ll meet with the Holy Father tomorrow. “I don’t think he could be more direct.”

Marianne Duddy-Burke, president of DignityUSA, a Boston-based national group that advocates for gay, lesbian and transgendered Catholics, said Benedict didn’t go far enough.

“I’m furious,” said Duddy-Burke, whose group plans to demonstrate along Benedict’s motorcade route tomorrow in Washington D.C. “He’s not addressing the main issue in this scandal, which is that bishops repeatedly gave known abusers access to other innocent children and unknowing families.”

Benedict answered questions that were submitted in advance by reporters aboard a special Alitalia airliner as he was flying from Rome to Washington D.C. to begin his first papal pilgrimage to the United States, the Associated Press reported.

“It is a great suffering for the church in the United States and for the church in general and for me personally that this could happen,” Benedict said. “It is difficult for me to understand how it was possible that priests betray in this way their mission . . . to these children.”

Benedict’s pilgrimage was the first U.S. trip by a pope since the pedophile priest scandal was exposed in U.S. dioceses in the early 2000s spawning lawsuits costing dioceses around the country hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements.Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/general/view.bg?articleid=1087167

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- It had been six years since John Scott filed a lawsuit over the sexual abuse he suffered as a child and three years since the priest who abused him pleaded guilty.

So Scott, of Louisville, took quiet satisfaction yesterday when Gov. Steve Beshear signed into law a measure toughening the penalties for sexual abusers and those who fail to report them, the first legal reform in the state following the sex-abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church.

"I'm really glad," said Scott, who for the past several legislative sessions has advocated for stricter criminal laws on sexual abuse. "The kids and parents of Kentucky should be proud. They wanted this for a long time, and it's here."

In a signing ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda, Beshear said: "Over the last decade, we have all been outraged and horrified by the revelation of wretched and sometimes avoidable sexual crimes by those in positions of power in religious and education institutions.

"Today we hear and answer the voices of the victims of those crimes," Beshear said.

House Bill 211 -- which passed both houses without dissent earlier this year -- takes effect 90 days from the end of the legislative session, scheduled for today.

Since 2003, Roman Catholic dioceses and religious orders in Kentucky have agreed to pay a total of more than $100 million to more than 500 people in lawsuits over sexual abuse by priests and others associated with the church.

The cases revealed multiple instances in which bishops kept known abusers in ministry without warning parishioners.

"Perhaps no institution has desecrated its sacred trust of our youth more than the Catholic Church in America during the last 70 years," the Rev. Joseph Fowler, a retired priest in the Archdiocese of Louisville, said during the ceremony.

He applauded the victims and activists in the group Voice of the Faithful for promoting the legislation.

"Today is a day of joy for a lot of people who have put a lot of work into this," said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Jim Wayne, D-Louisville.

Still, abuse survivor Tom Weiter, also of Louisville, said advocates have more work to do to keep perpetrators in prison longer.

Like Scott, Weiter was abused by the Rev. Edwin Scherzer, who is serving house arrest for abusing them and two other boys in the 1950s and 1960s.

Weiter said that when perpetrators are released, he believes the rate of new offenses is so high "they need to be under some kind of supervision for the rest of their lives."

The bill makes virtually all types of sexual offenses against minors felonies, which means they carry tougher penalties and can be legally prosecuted whenever the victim comes forward. Advocates say it often takes victims many years to do so.

The bill signed yesterday:

Makes it a felony for anyone older than age 21 to subject a minor younger than 16 to sexual contact or engage in masturbation in the minor's presence.

Makes it a felony for a person in "a position of authority or special trust" to engage in such acts with anyone younger than 18. Such persons could include teachers, clergy, coaches, adult relatives and other such categories.

Establishes progressively steeper penalties for any citizen who fails to report the abuse or neglect of a minor. The first offense could bring a sentence of up to 89 days of incarceration, the second up to 12 months and any subsequent offenses up to five years.

Lengthens the statute of limitations for prosecuting the few remaining sexual-abuse crimes that remain misdemeanors, those involving alleged perpetrators younger than 21. The new law allows victims to bring charges within five years of turning 18, rather than one year.

Baruch Lanner spent time in jail and Yudi kolko will not. This doesn't sit well with me. I'm happy about the guilty plea, however he is getting a very sweet deal. Perhaps Kolko got off easy in a deal to spill the beans on Marguiles & Co.

The New York TimesApril 16, 2008The Pope's VisitPope, in U.S., Is ‘Ashamed’ of Pedophile PriestsBy IAN FISHER and LAURIE GOODSTEIN

WASHINGTON — Pope Benedict XVI chose to address bluntly the sex scandal that has torn at the church here even before he landed Tuesday on his first official visit to the United States, saying he was “deeply ashamed” by the actions of pedophile priests.

His comments aboard his plane, in answer to a written question submitted by a reporter and selected by the Vatican, appeared to soothe many Catholics but left others demanding more action than words.

“It’s difficult for me to understand how it was possible that priests betrayed in this way their mission to give healing, to give the love of God to these children,” the pope said, adding that the church would work to exclude pedophiles from the priesthood.

“It is more important to have good priests than to have many priests,” he said.

The words were his strongest ever on the issue, one he clearly wanted to emphasize as he arrived on a six-day visit to Washington and New York. His comments were in response to the first of four questions he answered on the plane — chosen from 20 the press corps had submitted in advance.

It was unclear whether these would be the last words from Benedict on the issue, which ruptured the faith between parishioners and priests and has cost the church some $2 billion, or whether it was an opening signal of both reconciliation and more to come. Church officials have said they expected the pope to address the scandal more than once during his visit, and there is speculation that he may even meet with some victims.

But victims’ advocates clearly were not satisfied by the comments.

“He talks about feeling shame for the scandal but it’s a far cry from the shame that victims have had to live with our entire lives,” said Becky Ianni, 50, who said she was abused by her parish priest in Alexandria, Va., from age 9 to 11.

She was speaking at a vigil outside St. Dominic Church in Washington when the pope’s plane landed just before 4 p.m. Those at the vigil held a long vinyl banner with photographs of more than 60 children abused by priests. They explained that the 15 or so faces that were framed with black boxes were those of victims who had committed suicide.

“We don’t really need his sense of shame,” Ms. Ianni said. “We need him to take firm actions to correct the situation.”

The pope might actually be signaling that he was close to authorizing a change in canon law that would explicitly bar sexual abusers from the priesthood, said Nicholas P. Cafardi, dean emeritus of Duquesne Law School. A civil and canon lawyer, Mr. Cafardi was an original member of the National Review Board appointed by the American bishops at the height of the abuse scandal, in 2002.

There is a section in the church’s Code of Canon law that specifies that a man cannot be ordained a priest, or cannot remain a priest, if he has committed certain acts, like homicide, self-mutilation, attempted suicide or procuring an abortion, said Mr. Cafardi, the author of “Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops’ Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children” (Paulist Press, 2008).

“It’s time to add to that list pedophilia and sexual abuse of children,” Mr. Cafardi said. “I’m reading Benedict’s remarks as heading toward a change in the law of the universal church, so that this can be implemented throughout the Catholic world.”

He said it was unlikely that the pope would use a papal visit to announce a change in canon law. But, he added: “He’s raised expectations now, and he’s not an unkind person. You don’t raise expectations to bash them.”

Mathew N. Schmalz, an associate professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross, a Jesuit institution in Worcester, Mass., said Benedict’s remarks on the plane were significant because they represented a change in tone.

“He was reputed, at least during the tenure of John Paul II, to be uncomfortable with the church apologizing for the sins of its past,” Professor Schmalz said. “But quite clearly, here he is offering if not a mea culpa, then a sincere statement of regret for what happened, and taking responsibility for the church’s role.”

The timing of the pope’s remarks is also important, Professor Schmalz said.

“He’s putting it out there right away, and so he is setting the tone,” he said. “He recognizes there is no way for him to avoid this issue, so he’s addressing it.”

Benedict is the third pope to travel to the United States. Pope Paul VI visited once, in 1965; John Paul II made seven trips to the United States.

President Bush traveled to Andrews Air Force Base to meet Benedict, whose visit is clearly an event of some pomp and great celebration for many of America’s 64 million Catholics.

The white-haired pope, dressed in his traditional white vestments and red shoes, stepped off the Alitalia Boeing 777 and greeted a crowd with a two-handed salute. Because of the wind, he had taken off his zucchetto, his white skullcap, and carried it until he reached the red carpet, where President Bush, his wife, Laura, and daughter Jenna were waiting.

Several hundred spectators waved yellow and white Vatican pennants and sang “Happy Birthday” to Benedict, a native of Germany who turns 81 on Wednesday.

Neither the pope nor the president made any public comments, and the pope retired immediately to the residence of the nuncio, the Vatican’s ambassador to the United States.

The official meeting between the pope and the president is scheduled for Wednesday morning at the White House. Dana Perino, a White House spokeswoman, told reporters here that the president and pope would discuss human rights, fighting extremism in the Muslim world, Lebanon and hunger in Africa.

On the plane, the pope said he also planned to raise the issue of immigration, contentious in America, but on which the Vatican has clear opinions. Among his concerns, he said, is the “grave problem of separation of families.”

“This really is dangerous to the fabric — social, moral, human — of these countries,” he said, adding that where it was possible to reunite families, it should be done.

In the longer-term, the pope said, the solution is creating enough development in poor countries “so there would be no need to immigrate because there would be sufficient jobs.”

“On this point I will also speak with the president because, above all, the United States must help countries to develop themselves in the interests of everyone, not only of these countries but of the world and even the United States,” he said.

The Vatican did not signal that Iraq — an issue on which the Vatican and the Bush administration have disagreed — would be part of the agenda.

Ms. Perino said she did not expect it to be brought up. “Obviously there was a difference of opinion back in 2003 and beyond, in subsequent years,” she said. “But now I think that there is an understanding that with the strategy that’s working in Iraq right now, the most important thing we can do is help to solidify the situation.”

After three days in Washington during which he will meet with Catholic educators and celebrate Mass at Nationals Park, he will travel to New York on Friday to address the United Nations.

On the plane, he said he would speak on the importance of human rights.

Benedict, who has often spoken favorably about how Americans observe their religious beliefs, was also asked, on the plane, whether he felt America could serve as a model for a Europe, which is far more secularized.

“Certainly Europe can’t simply copy the United States,” he said. “We have our own history.” But he said the United States was interesting because it “started with the positive idea of secularism.”

“This new people was made of communities that had escaped official state purges and wanted a lay state, a secular state that opened the possibility for all confessions and all form of religious exercise,” he added. “Therefore it was a state that was intentionally secular. It was the exact opposite of state religion, but it was secular out of love for religion and for an authenticity that can only be lived freely.”

* Story Highlights * Sen. Arlen Specter has "excellent chance" of achieving remission * Pennsylvania Republican will continue in Senate and in re-election campaign * Specter's Hodgkin's disease was originally diagnosed in 2005 * Specter this year released book on his experience with cancer

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Arlen Specter's Hodgkin's disease, which he battled in 2005, has recurred, but doctors said that its return was detected early and that Specter has an "excellent chance" of once again achieving remission, according to a statement issued Tuesday by the senator's office.

Specter, 78, will continue to perform his Senate duties and conduct his campaign for re-election to a sixth term but will undergo 12 weeks of chemotherapy, the written statement said. Hodgkin's disease is a cancer of the lymphatic system.

The recurrence was found during a routine scan, which flagged small lymph nodes in Specter's chest and abdomen, the statement said. A follow-up biopsy of one of the chest lymph nodes was positive for recurrence, but a bone marrow biopsy was negative.

"I was surprised by the PET scan findings because I have been feeling so good," Specter said in the statement. "I consider this just another bump in the road to a successful recovery from Hodgkin's, from which I've been symptom-free for three years."

Specter had no symptoms besides the findings in the scan, the statement said. "Based on the location of the recurrence and the absence of symptoms, his lymphoma is considered stage IIIA. This is significantly less advanced than his Hodgkin's disease when it was originally diagnosed in 2005, when it was stage IVB."

"Specter has an excellent chance of again achieving a complete remission of his Hodgkin's disease," said the senator's oncologist, John H. Glick of the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center. "Sen. Specter's early diagnosis of his recurrent Hodgkin's disease has a five-year survival rate of 60 percent. He is in superb physical condition, with a normal physical examination and blood work, no symptoms of disease, plays squash regularly and follows a careful diet."

The statement from Specter's office noted that he had successful surgery for a brain tumor in 1993. It recurred in 1996 and was successfully treated.

In 1998, during a re-election campaign, he underwent cardiac bypass surgery and suffered post-operative cardiac arrest, from which he fully recovered, the statement said.

"I've beaten some tough medical problems and tough political opponents, and I expect to beat this too," Specter said. "I look forward to getting through this treatment and continuing to serve the people of Pennsylvania."

Specter wrote a book on his experience with cancer. "Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate" was released in March. VideoWatch Specter discuss politics, his book and his battle with cancer »

(CNN)--He doesn't know how old he is, but he thinks he's 7. His name is Khin Zaw Lin. He's lived in a garbage dump virtually his entire life.

I find Lin walking in a festering landscape of rotting food, plastic bags and junk at the Mae Sot garbage dump in Thailand near the Thai-Myanmar border. His parents are long gone. His home is a makeshift shelter made from salvaged bags, cloth and wood.

Lin is one of about 300 refugees in the dump who survive on other people's trash. Many are children. Some are women with babies.

Their daily routine follows the same pattern: They mill about the dump, waiting for the next truck to arrive, hoping for enough discarded food to get them through the day.

Lin pokes through the rubbish with a machete. He says he collects bottles and plastic for three cents a sack. He shows me his feet, which were filthy and ribbed with cuts.

He tells me through an interpreter that he can't afford shoes. He walks barefoot through the treacherous landscape.

My assistant told me about Lin's home while he was researching another story on the border area in Myanmar, the country once known as Burma. I found it hard to believe at first, but I was curious. I persuaded my camera crew to make the six-hour drive from Bangkok.

When we arrive at the dump, people are afraid of us. We'd been told there are orphans living at the dump, but people are wary. They think we are there to take away the orphans or ask for bribes.

I tell them I want to help, and I am eventually directed to Lin. He greets me with a soft, hoarse voice. But he's all energy and purpose when he resumes plucking bottles from the mountain of trash.

A recycling firm offers the closest thing to steady employment for Lin and his family. It buys what bottles and plastics Lin and others salvage.

Lin gives the money to his adopted mother. She tells me that Lin's biological mother gave him to her in Myanmar when he was a baby because she couldn't cope with the responsibility.

Life under the military junta in Myanmar can be brutal. The country's economy is collapsing, and torture and rape under the country's military regime is commonplace. Lin's new mother decided to flee to Thailand in search of a better life. She found a garbage dump instead.

Still, she says scavenging for food in the dump is actually an improvement on her previous life.

As I listen to Lin's story, a question keeps going through my mind: How can a 7-year-old spend his entire childhood in this squalor? VideoWatch as Lin and others root through the dump »

Perhaps it's because Lin is invisible -- he doesn't have a passport or papers. He is part of special group of refugees from Myanmar that don't officially exist.

The United Nations established refugee camps in Thailand for those who flee Myanmar, but the camps are reserved only for victims of political persecution. Refugees fear if they enter a refugee camp, they'll be classified as migrant workers and deported.

As a result, these refugees are trapped in the garbage dump -- not enough money to go elsewhere and no prospects back home.

I thought I had become accustomed to the grinding poverty I had encountered in parts of Asia. I've met my fair share of children who are denied the luxury of hope. But Lin's story angers me. I feel close to losing all objectivity.

Near the end of my meeting with Lin, I ask his adopted mother if she, and Lin, would ever escape the rubbish dump.

International Herald TribuneRabbi clears out thousands of prayer notes from Jerusalem's Western Wall for burial nearby

The Associated PressTuesday, April 15, 2008

JERUSALEM: Poking into crevices between the ancient stones of the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, a senior rabbi and his helpers on Tuesday removed thousands of handwritten notes placed there by visitors who believe their requests will find a shortcut to God by being deposited at Judaism's holiest site.

The operation is carried out twice each year: before the Passover festival which begins this weekend and at the Jewish New Year in the fall.

The Western Wall was part of the retaining wall of the Temple Mount, where the biblical Temples stood in the days of the Bible. Destroyed by ancient invaders, their site is now the home of the Al Aqsa Mosque compound.

Thought the ages, Jews have prayed at the Western Wall, and others pay their respects to the sanctity of the site. VIP visitors have included U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pope John Paul II.

"Millions of people place notes here at the Western Wall with their requests, we take them out in order that more people can place these notes," said the site's rabbi, Shmuele Rabinowitz. "So that these notes are not defiled and don't fall out, we collect then in a seemly and respectful way and bury them on the Mount of Olives," just across a valley from the Old City.

Rabinowitz and a squad of helpers coaxed the pieces of paper from the crevices with sticks. The notes fell to the ground and were scooped in handfuls into plastic-lined garbage bins for later transfer to the ancient Jewish cemetery.

Jewish religious practice forbids the destruction of any written material that includes one of the names of God, so worn or damaged Torah scrolls, prayer books and other religious articles are buried.

"We treat these notes as holy, as something that people wrote to the creator," Rabinowitz said. "We treat them according to Jewish law and inter them along with all holy writings."

He said neither he nor his staff read the notes.

"It's like a prayer, it's an expression of a person's request from the heart to the Creator," he added.

For those unable to reach the wall in person, religious and postal authorities deliver notes that arrive by mail, e-mail or SMS message.

Postal authorities say letters, some addressed simply to God, come from all corners of the globe, including a few from predominantly Muslim nations like Indonesia.

Rabinowitz said the ancient temple, built by King Solomon, was intended as a house of prayer for all nations.

"God promised that every prayer uttered here would be heard in heaven, from Jews and gentiles alike," he said.Notes:International Herald Tribune

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About Me

It is unfortunate that it has come to this. It is a big darn shame it has come to this. It is very hurtful that it has come to this. But yet, IT HAS COME TO THIS. It has come at the price of a GREAT CHILUL HASHEM. It has come to Hashem having to allow his holy name to be DESECRATED so that his CHILDREN remain SAFE. Shame on all those responsible for enabling and permitting Hashem's name to be desecrated!
When you save children you save the future. You save the future you save generations. You save generations you save lives. You save lives you have saved the world!!!!!!!

Cain and Abel

SHOMRIM, NYPD, RABBIS - HOW DO THEY ALL TIE IN TOGETHER?

Speaking Tuesday night in Flatbush in the Bostoner beit midrash at the Irgun Shiurei Torah conference as the search for Leiby Kletzky was in full frantic swing, the vice-president of Agudath Israel of America's Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah, Supreme Council of Rabbinic Sages, Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky says child sexual abuse must be reported to rabbis, not police. (Failed Messiah reports)

Shocking new details further prove Levi Aron is a premeditated murderer who knew right from wrong

A medical examiner has determined the cause of death of Leiby Kletzky, announcing Wednesday that the 8-year-old was first drugged and later smothered. According to officials, Kletzky died from a combination of drugs including cyclobenzaprine (muscle relaxant), quetiapine (antipsychotic), hydrocodone (pain medication), and acetaminophen (Tylenol) followed by smothering.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Aron had scratches on his arms, wrists and elsewhere -- a sign "there was some kind of struggle." There also were marks on the boy's remains that could have been caused by restraints, the commissioner added.

The boy butcher doing the perp walk

Levi Aron (right), charged with the murder of Leiby Kletzky is taken from the 67th Precinct by authorities on Wednesday night.

Meet Levi Aron - The Monster Who Savagley Murdered Leiby Kletzky A'H

Aron, who is believed to be an orthodox Jew, was originally from Brooklyn but spent some time in Memphis before moving back to the borough two years ago. He was employed at a Brooklyn maintenance supply company and lived in a house with his parents and uncle.

Man in gold colored sedan being sought for questioning

Missing! $125,000 reward offered

Leibby Kletzky, 8, was last seen at Yeshiva Boyan school in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS

Are you a victim? Did Yeshivah College or Adass Yisroel girls’ school hush you up back then?

Victorian Police are appealing to anyone who may have information or indeed may have been victims of sexual abuse during the period between 1989 and 1993. They have also launched an investigation into sexual abuse at the Adass Yisroel girls’ school n Elsternwick whose principal Malka Leifer fled to Israel in 2008. David Kramer went back to the US where he was arrested and is currently serving a prison sentence for sexual assaults on children. Acting Detective Sergeant Scott Dywer has asked anyone with information to contact him at the Moorabin Sexual Offences Unit on 03 9556 6128

Manny Waks as a schoolboy in 1988 (click to watch video)

Based on reliable information I have, it is anticipated that arrest(s) will be conducted very soon. This is certainly a move I have been anticipating for many years and will welcome once it occurs. There are two fundamental reasons why I have decided to share my information publicly. Firstly, this is about justice and closure – both for myself and other victims. I intend to hold both the perpetrators and Yeshivah Centre to account, the latter for persuading victims to remain silent and not taking appropriate action subsequent to the crimes occurring. The most important people in this tragedy are the many victims that have been abused and betrayed by the perpetrators and Yeshivah Centre many times over. The victims need and deserve justice and closure. Further, it is also my hope that as I take a public stand on this matter, it may embolden other victims to lodge a complaint with the police. As I hold central leadership positions within the Jewish community, it is my hope that I may also help change the stigma associated with victims of such crimes and thereby further embolden other victims to seek the justice that they rightly deserve. I have been informed that there are many, many additional victims out there, some of whom I personally know. Some of these victims apparently have not shared their experiences even with their wives/families. While the perpetrators’ responsibilities are obvious, the negligence of Yeshivah Centre must be seriously addressed, both in terms of seeking justice for what did occur, and in terms of preventing such cases from reoccurring. Whether or not there was no mandatory reporting at the time of the crimes in question is irrelevant – despite recent statements by the Yeshivah Centre in trying to defend the indefensible.

Manny Waks is a courageous, heroic human-being!

Manny Waks, a Canberra-based vice-president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, was one of the children sexually assaulted at Melbourne’s Yeshiva College between 1989 and 1993. He tells J-Wire of his experience….(click picture)

Yeshivah College did not report complaints to police. David Kramer fled Australia in the 1990s

Rabbi Ze'ev Smason, who alerted police in Missouri after the boy's family told him something inappropriate had occurred, said: ''The Kramer case provides a great opportunity to trace the failure of segments of the Jewish community to their source. ''If only the problem had been addressed in Australia … the victim in St Louis and countless others would have been spared suffering,'' he wrote in 2008. Speaking from the US last night, Rabbi Smason said individuals had a religious, ethical and moral obligation to ensure a person who committed a crime could not do so again. ''If there were other victims, any religious authorities who did not step forward enabled him [Kramer] to commit such crimes,'' he said. ''To a degree, an individual who could prevent evil from happening is responsible when it occurs - that's a pretty heavy spiritual burden to carry.'' Kramer pleaded guilty to one count of sodomy of a child under 14 and one count of sexual misconduct. The Age understands Victoria Police hopes to extradite him when he is released, with the earliest parole date April next year.

Bye Bye Mass Murderer~..~

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”

“Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.”

Why would Chaim Berlin's Rosh Hayeshiva disobey a Tzadik's command to appear before him in a din Torah?

“They have been the point men for the community [on this issue] and they have accepted the approach of the community, which is never to go to the police. They endlessly [hide] behind technicalities” ~~~ Rabbi Yosef Blau

All's Not Swell

Crooked rabbi gets four years for hedge-fund exortion

Meat Carving station at the Agudah convention

The Dancing with the Stars professional dancer was repeatedly molested by a family friend who was sent to jail for nearly 20 years after she testified against him in court, People reported Wednesday. "I'm telling my story," Burke told People. "They're not secrets. There's no shame."

Convicted Child Molester Gets 675 Years in Prison

Michael Benjamin Burch, 66, was convicted on Dec. 21 of three counts each of forcible rape, oral copulation of a person under 14 and lewd act upon a child.

Man Accused of Molesting 3 Girls at Wife's Day Care Center

Ruben Avalos was arrested on Thursday as he was picking up kids after school and taking them to the Carlos Family Child Care Center in the 16500 block of Tarano Lane. Avalos was booked for investigation of sex with a child, forced oral copulation and lewd acts upon a child.

Vatican and Irish church cover-up of worst pedophile priest

The just released chapter in the Murphy Commission report on abuse in the Dublin archdiocese on abuser priest Tony Walsh reveals in horrific detail how the Vatican covered up for the man the Murphy Commission described as the worst abuser of all. It also described how the Archbishop of Dublin, Dermot Ryan, wrote a strong letter of approval for Byrne despite knowing he was a dreadful pedophile.

House of Horrors!

This is house of Rabbi Gershom Kranczer, who has been accused of molesting his daughters aged 20,19,18, and 8. The family's pattern of abuse came to light after one of the women, who is now 20, broke down and told a co-worker at a yeshiva that the rabbi molested her for 15 years.

Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who wrought miracles for our fathers in days of old, at this season.

Oprah Winfrey Breaks the Silence on Men Who Are Sexually Abused

The first show, airing November 5th, will introduce an audience of 200 men, each holding a photo of himself at the age when he was first abused. Tyler Perry and a psychologist specializing in male sexual abuse survivors will speak to the crowd. On the second show, airing November 12th, the men in the audience will be joined by their significant others to discuss how the abuse has affected their relationships.

Shana Tova!

“You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.”

Child Rapist B.L Gets "Stricter" Kosher meals

Even though Rikers Island has kosher food for its Jewish prisoners, a Satmar rabbi (Putz Drek "Rabbi" David Niederman enables molestation) gets "special food brought straight to his Rikers Island cell." Baruch Leibovits complained that the food "hadn't had proper rabbinical supervision," but the Post notes his "adherence to holy law apparently didn't preclude repeatedly sexually abusing a 16-year-old classmate of his son."

Teacher molested kids for 20 years, while community turned blind eye

For almost 20 years, one man allegedly sexually abused dozens of children on Moshav Kommemiyut, an ultra-Orthodox community in the northern Negev. Yet no one ever complained - either to the police or to the welfare authorities. The police have since opened an investigation into the abuses, but the suspect is in the U.S. and refuses to return. Meanwhile, some say community leaders knew of the crimes but did nothing to stop them. At least one of the victims is suspected of having sexually abused younger children in turn. The main suspect, Shimshon Walzer, began his alleged career as an abuser 19 years ago, while serving as a teacher at a religious elementary school. Two years later, rumors of his abusive conduct led to him being fired as a teacher. Yet for some reason, he was allowed to retain an office at the school. Over the ensuing years, his conduct became ever more abusive, police say, and an entire generation of children became his sex slaves. According to the testimony they have collected, he abused his victims frequently and in broad daylight, in barns and chicken coops, in fields and even at the mikveh (ritual bath ).

Kevin Ricks accused of being a serial sexual predator

They didn’t know about his apparent library of homemade pornographic videos and explicit photographs that officials say capture his tequila-soaked sex acts with teenage boys he had handpicked. They didn’t know about the makeshift shrine boxes that police say contain mementos of the episodes, including sex toys, soiled tissues and hair trimmings. Even some of the possible victims didn’t know they were victims. A four-month Washington Post investigation of Ricks’ career as a teacher, tutor, foreign exchange host and camp counselor has revealed what appears to be a pattern of abuse that dates to at least 1978 and has left a trail of victims spanning the globe. But despite the abuse, Ricks moved from one teaching job to the next over nearly 30 years, navigating the nation’s public and private school systems undetected, evading traps designed to catch him. He spent the 1982-83 school year in Norfolk, teaching at Hampton Roads Academy. In some cases, school officials and foreign exchange companies knew of or suspected Ricks’ inappropriate behavior and simply let him go, leaving the next employer with no idea what was coming.

More victims coming forward with accounts of indecent sexual assault and battery

Two years ago, Michael Brecher came to prosecutors in Boston with a disturbing allegation: In the 1970s, he said, he had been molested by a rabbi who was teaching sixth grade at one of the region’s most prestigious Jewish day schools, the Maimonides School. One of Brecher’s classmates came forward at the same time. And last year, after reading news accounts of indecent sexual assault and battery charges filed against Stanley Z. Levitt, a third person said that he, too, was abused by Levitt. Now, court records show that Levitt might have tried to entice two more students into having intimate contact with him while they took showers in his Brighton home. One of those former students has told Boston police that Levitt took him and other students on a field trip to Montreal where Levitt directed the students in a ritual purification bath, or mikvah, while all of them were naked, an inappropriate practice, according to an official at a prominent Jewish theological seminary. Levitt has also faced allegations in Philadelphia, where he lived after leaving Maimonides.

US district attorney blasts Swiss ruling that set Roman Polanski free

Freedom, for Mr. Polanski, still comes with a specific list of destinations. He is expected to return to France, where he holds citizenship. He fled there more than 30 years ago after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful intercourse after being charged in Los Angeles with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.

Witness Tampering & Coverup In Fakewood

Russian pianist faces Thai paedophile rape charge

Award-winning Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev has been arrested at a Thai beach resort, accused of raping a boy, police said on Wednesday. Pletnev, 53, an acclaimed pianist and conductor of the Russian National Orchestra, was arrested in Pattaya charged with raping a 14-year-old Thai boy and appearing in compromising photographs with several others.

Founders of Rape Crisis Center remember friend who helped create hot line and justice for victims

Sandy Mitzel was a petite but tough woman who knew how to get things done. "She was fearless," said her friend, Helen Zucker. "She took everything personally. Anything she believed in, she embraced and ran with."

Hayes ordered Streicher, an American whose family lives in Israel, behind bars for at least a year.

Michoel Streicher, whose celebrity in religious circles peaked in the early 1990s, was convicted by a Manhattan jury of grand larceny in April for stealing money from Judy Burstein of Washington Heights in 2005. Burstein gave him the cash to buy a holy scroll for her dying father.

Ex-Mass. rabbi charged again in child abuse

The Suffolk County district attorney says a rabbi who once taught at a Boston-area school faces another child assault charge. Authorities said Sunday that Stanley Z. Levitt was charged with indecent assault and battery on a child. The 64-year-old Levitt is expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Suffolk Superior Court. Levitt was arraigned last year on four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child. Prosecutors say he assaulted two boys about 11 years old who attended the Maimonides School in Brookline where he taught between 1974 and 1977. Prosecutors say the third person approached them after reading media accounts. Authorities say he also was a sixth grader at the school that employed Levitt in the mid-1970s.

Restaurant Owner Arrested For Sex Abuse Of 16-Year-Old Girl

Memet Arslan, 32, of Bellmore is accused of locking the girl inside his Mediterranean Kebab Restaurant on June 17, grabbing and forcibly touching her, Nassau County Police said.

Shmuley and the Pope make nice

Victim of sexual assault: I’m sorry I gave you all those years. I’m sorry you gave me all those tears I’m sorry that i believed all your lies. I’m sorry but I must say goodbye.

If you are a victim of Michael Sabo or know someone who is call 911

The ongoing investigation by the NYPD and the Brooklyn district attorney found scores of child pornography photographs - including S&M shots with tied-up kids - on Sabo's home computer, said one law enforcement source. Many of the pictures found with the December 2009 search warrant showed adults engaged in sex with the kids - including Sabo, the source said.

Helen Thomas told rabbilive.com that Israel should "get the hell out of Palestine."

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~~~ Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes ~~~

Sex abusers at Disney: Men sent to prison for lewd acts on boys

Jerry Lester Wiley, left, of Lady Lake and Miles Esterson of London pleaded no contest to lewd and lascivious conduct. They were sentenced to prison after they were found guilty of molesting three young brothers whom they had taken to Walt Disney World. (Lake County Sheriff's Office / June 3, 2010)

For 5th Year, Child Sex Abuse Bill Dies in Legislature

Assemblywoman Margaret Markey, a Queens Democrat who wrote the legislation and has been its chief advocate, said that in one sense the vote on Wednesday represented progress. “Our bill has never even come to a vote before in the Senate,” she said. “So we feel this was an important step.” Since it was first introduced in the 2006-7 session, the Child Victims Act has been fervently opposed by the Catholic Church and several Orthodox Jewish groups, which saw potentially devastating financial implications in opening an opportunity for victims, regardless of age, to bring lawsuits for sexual abuse suffered in childhood. Last year, in an attempt to blunt complaints from the religious groups that they were being singled out, the bill was amended to make public institutions like schools equally liable.

Former B'nai Brith leader pleads guilty to child porn charges

The former regional director of B’nai Brith in Quebec, Bill Surkis, has pleaded guilty on two counts relating to the possession of child pornography. Surkis (R) is seen here leaving Montreal's Palais du Justice on Friday, May 29, 2009 with lawyer Steven Slimovitch. (Photo Credit: Dave Sidaway, Gazette file)

Covering up a shocking crime

While US and Israeli Charedi communities have been rocked by sex abuse, are we treating the issue seriously enough?

Justice for Child Abuse Victims

We urge the New York State Legislature to rise above intense lobbying by the New York State Catholic Conference and Orthodox Jewish officials and pass the overdue Child Victims Act. Like a similar measure enacted in 2003 by California, it would create a one-time, one-year suspension of the statute of limitations for bringing civil lawsuits over the sexual abuse of children. Once that window closes, people alleging abuse would have until age 28 to bring a claim. Current law sets the limit at 23 in most circumstances.

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime

An orthodox Jewish man charged with molesting a boy at a Brooklyn synagogue dropped a bombshell on cops: He claimed he was abused years ago by a rabbi just sent to prison for preying on youngsters. Click on perv to read more

Elior Chen accomplices convicted

The defendants in the trial were David Kugman, Avraham Maksalchi, Ro’i Tzoref and Shimon Gabai.

Shlomo Mandel's newest 4th grade Rebbe at YOB

Emphasizing a hands-on approach

Supporters of Lebovits wait for the verdict outside the Kings County criminal court

the trial took a shocking turn when Gregory asked Ashkenazi if he knew a particular Brooklyn boy. Ashkenazi, who speaks fractured English, sat uncomfortably on the witness stand and acknowledged that he did know the boy. “Isn’t it true,” the prosecutor continued, that Ashkenazi had once touched his knee to the boy’s private parts? Ashkenazi, flustered, denied that that was true. Then, Gregory named another boy and asked the witness if, “back in 1998, on multiple occasions, [he] sexually molested him when he was 13 years old?” Ashkenazi protested to the assistant district attorney, “I am a holy person!”

"Rabbi" Shloime Mandel practicing bedikas chometz

after intensly digging through the volume of dirt he was thankful he did not get buried alive!

Rabbinic Leaders Silent On Child Sexual Abuse

Every attempt I made to enlist the aid of rabbinic leadership was met with reactions ranging from an unwillingness to deal with the problem, to indifference, to total denial of the existence of a problem — which I have since learned was in all cases completely disingenuous. The rabbis in fact knew about this problem all along and they acted to protect the pedophiles and intimidate the victims and their families, all the while maintaining a public silence. (by Ben Hirsch Special To The Jewish Week)

“To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.”

Rabbi Baruch Lebovits is facing a long prison term after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy. "Thank God, justice is served," the victim's father said in the packed courtroom as Lebovits family members wiped tears from their eyes. "This makes a statement to the Jewish community," said Beth Kaplan of the group Sacred Lives, one of several advocates who sat through the week-long trial. "There is denial. The majority of the Orthodox community doesn't believe this can happen. Here we see it can happen."

Rabbi Yaakov Weiss holds his prayer books Monday after being sentenced to 60 days in Jail.

Rabbi Yaakov Weiss, 30, founder of the Chabad of Colonie and the Chabad Hebrew School, was handcuffed and led out by sheriff’s deputies to start his sentence. “You have utterly failed to accept responsibility for your actions,” County Judge Stephen Herrick told Weiss, whose family and supporters sat in the courtroom. “You are not the victim here. The boys were the victims.”

Lebovits was convicted on eight counts of Criminal Sexual Act in the Third Degree. When he is sentenced on March 29, he will face up to four years in prison on each count. The victim knew Lebovits as a rabbi and prominent businessman in the Borough Park community, where they both lived. Lebovits is also charged in two other cases of sexual assaults on minors. Those cases are pending. The case was prosecuted by Miss Gregory, First Deputy Bureau Chief in the Sex Crimes Bureau. Rhonnie Jaus is Chief of the Sex Crimes Bureau.

A face not even a mother can love!

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.” ~~~Steven Weinberg ~~~

No matter how gloomy things seem, everything can turn around.

After years of suspicions among parents and questions about his strange behavior from colleagues, Bradley was arrested after a 2-year-old girl told her mother that the doctor hurt her in December when he took her to a basement room of his office after an exam. The case has shocked the close-knit coastal community of Lewes and the central Delaware town of Milford, where Bradley closed an office in 2005 after police investigated him. Biden and Gov. Jack Markell have ordered reviews to determine whether doctors, hospitals, state agencies or law enforcement authorities failed to comply with a state law that requires all such entities to report to the medical licensing board in writing within 30 days if they believe a doctor is or "may be" guilty of unprofessional conduct. Biden said Monday that those investigations are aimed at determining "how this physician could lurk in our midst for as long as he did."

'Trust, but check,' our sages tell us.

Our first and foremost concern must always be for the victim. Societies today may be so focused on securing the rights and privileges of the accused that they neglect the suffering of those who are harmed in the first place. More than one community, having detected a sexual predator in its midst, has simply transferred the criminal to another, unsuspecting community so as to avoid a legal battle and all the negative publicity that comes along with it. Meanwhile, the victims are denied their right to justice and the fox is now transferred to a new hen-house, where he may continue his deviant behavior on new victims.

Rabbi Milton Balkany, Rubashkin Brother-In-Law, in a heap of trouble

The rabbi allegedly tried to make a deal which would entail him keeping the information mum, and the hedge fund making $2 million donations to two Brooklyn schools, the Bais Yaakov school (turns out Balkany is the dean) and another school.

"Brooklyn Bundler" is at it again.

Rabbi Milton Balkany, 63, was charged with extortion, blackmail and making false statements as part of an elaborate scheme to shake down the hedge fund, prosecutors charged. They say Balkany told the hedge fund the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI were trying to get a jailbird he knew to give up information about illegal insider trades made by the financial firm. There were no insider trades. Balkany made up the story to trick fund managers into giving millions to the Bais Yaakov School in Borough Park, where he is the dean, and another school, Torah Vodaath, prosecutors said. Balkany said prosecutors are telling tales.

Wicked Man!

New Jersey lawyer representing several clients who claim they were abused by Mondrowitz, told the New York Jewish Week that he has uncovered evidence that Mondrowitz has continued his practice of treating young boys in Israel. Michael Lesher, an attorney and a writer specialising in sexual abuse cases, says a document obtained from Mondrowitz’s computer shows a 15-year-old boy was assessed by Mondrowitz in 2006. “We have always heard from the rabbis that, whatever has happened, in Israel, Mondrowitz has been kept away from children. Taking this at face value, it seems, that is not true.”

ensnared 44 rabbis, politicians and public officials in a sweeping anti-corruption raid last year

Solomon Dwek, once a highly regarded member of the Syrian Jewish community and known for his philanthropy, is now seen as a "moser," or "snitch," by some members of that community. Dwek has turned down a chance to enter the federal Witness Protection Program but he no longer lives in Deal.

Child advocates still in a state of shock and disbelief over Mondrowitz ruling

Yitzhak Kadman, president of the Israeli National Council for the Child, the oldest and largest children’s rights advocacy group in Israel, told The Jewish Week that “We are disappointed with the decision. We believe that it is sending [the] wrong message to people who are accused of such serious crimes [as the] sexual abuse of children.” Kadman added, “We believe that regardless of the question that Israel is and should be a shelter for every Jew in the world, the Law of Return [did not intend for] Israel to become a shelter for people who are pedophiles who are running from the court system in other countries.”

Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Mondrowitz will not be extradited to stand trial in America.

“At the very least, the authorities in Israel should be pursuing criminal charges against Mondrowitz for recent crimes that both they and the U.S. authorities have clear and convincing evidence of,” said SFJ president Ben Hirsch. Michael Lesher, a Passaic, N. J., attorney who represents six American Jews who claim Mondrowitz abused them as children, said, “We know now, which we didn’t before, just what kind of denial we are facing. “We feel outrage, we feel bitterness and we feel rising anger that bringing Mondrowitz to justice is being resisted.”

At the mikveh, Weiss “touched his penis to the boy’s buttocks,” states the indictment.

“He got a slap on the hand. Across the country people are copping pleas so they don’t end up on sex offender registries,” said Vicki Polin, founder and chief executive officer of The Awareness Center, which advocates on behalf of victims of rabbinic sexual abuse. “Our courts seem to care more about white-collar crime than they do about our own children,” she said. “If he’s not on a sex offender registry, it means he still can teach. There are so many cases just like this and then they just re-offend.”

Justice Denied!

"rabbi" Yaakov Weiss admitted he had "inappropriate physical contact" with two naked boys.

Yaakov Weiss, founder of the Chabad of Colonie and the Chabad Hebrew School, pleaded guilty to child endangerment during an appearance in front of Albany County Judge Stephen Herrick. He faces up to 60 days in jail and three years probation as part of a plea bargain reached with the district attorney's office. His sentencing his schedule for March 1. Under questioning by the judge, Weiss admitted he had the inappropriate contact with the boy. He also told the court he told one of the boys to lie about the contact if asked by parents or police. In both cases, the indictment alleged that Weiss had sexual contact "consisting of placing his penis in contact with said child's buttocks." The incidents allegedly took place inside a pool, called a mikveh, used by some Jews for ritual purification, according to his attorney. (THE PUNISHMENT DOES NOT FIT THE CRIME)

Fourteen lawsuits from around the country have been filed against Eliyahu Weinstein

Thank You Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg!

Frum Follies - The Story behind the Arrest of Rabbi David Greenfeld for Molesting

Church falls from grace, Are Yeshivos Next?

The Irish Catholic Church will hope it never again has to live through a year like 2009, a year when the litany of woes which befell it was unprecedented.

Coming out of the closet in Yeshiva University

The mashgiach ruchani of Yeshiva University, Rabbi Yosef Blau, introduces a panel discussion called "Being Gay in the Modern Orthodox World" to a standing-room-only crowd in Washington Heights (Photo by Michael Orbach/The Jewish Star).

Yeshiva teacher David Greenfeld accused of boy molest

A Borough Park, Brooklyn, yeshiva teacher was busted Wednesday morning for allegedly molesting a teenage boy who had attended his synagogue, cops said.

The Conversion controversy

OTTAWA — In the midst of a nasty global battle over who is a "true" Jew, Ottawa's Rabbi Reuven Bulka has stopped converting people to Orthodox Judaism.

'Watch these hands move'-- Yeshiva of Brooklyn Santa Skit

Playing the part, Nussbaum demonstrates on a boy in the bais medrash

Light 'em Up!

… and May This Festival of Lights bring Blessings upon you and All Your Loved Ones for Happiness, for Health, and for Spiritual and Material Wealth, and May the Lights of Chanukah Usher in the Light of Moshiach and a Better World for All of Humankind.

CHUTZPAH! Catholic Church Rules Alan Placa Not Guilty;

Avraham M. Leizerowitz has started working at a new job. He is the mashgiach ruchani (religious counselor) in a Jerusalem yeshiva for teen boys who have trouble in mainstream yeshivot. (click picture)

Priorities? - shielding Mondrowitz. Wants segregated psych hospitals

Deputy Health Minister Ya'acov Litzman's idea of eventually hospitalizing only women at the Eitanim Mental Health Center in the Jerusalem Corridor and only male patients at the Kfar Shaul State Mental Health Center would probably end up costing more money and be very difficult to manage, according to Dr. Yehezkel Caine, director of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem.

Lakewood in Turmoil

Concern over sex crime reporting in Orthodox neighborhoods has been bubbling for years. Child advocates attribute the recent escalation to a plethora of blogs and support groups that give emboldened victims a voice.

Baruch Lebovits Accused Of Hundreds Of Counts Of Child Rape And Abuse

"Frumkeit" is a mental disorder

“You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings” ~Lisa Simpson quotes

Please Click Picture link and sign the petition now!

I support the Child Victims Act of New York (A2596B/S5893).

Steve Lipman's eye-openening article in The Jewish Week

"Twice within the past few years, several pulpit rabbis in Passaic, Rabbi Eisenman among them, announced in shul when men accused of being sexual molesters had moved into the community. One, Stefan Colmer, left Passaic soon thereafter, likely because of the public exposure, Passaic residents say, and is now in jail having been convicted of eight counts of criminal sexual act in the second degree; the other, Mitchell Levinton, pleaded guilty to child endangerment last month and faces a five-year prison term."

"We all know now - Meir Kahane was right"

"He dedicated his whole life to Israel... he was a great man, and a great leader. Today, even the Left admits that we have a demographic problem." Kahane was assassinated in New York on November 5, 1990.

This piece of crap should have been stuffed in the airplane's cargo hold

Elior Chen, suspected of ordering his followers to abuse children, to land in Israel on Wednesday afternoon after being extradited from Brazil. Upon boarding plane he shouts, 'This is illegal'

Israeli rabbi charged with raping teens

The 42-year-old rabbi not only raped the 16-year-old teen but also molested her 14-year-old sister and physically assaulted her 15-year-old brother.

has been a fugitive from justice for the past 31 years.

If Roman Polanski were charged with child rape today, DNA evidence, stiffer penalties, outcry over childhood sexual abuse and tougher scrutiny of celebrity justice would make prosecutors much less willing to cut the plea deal the director received more than 30 years ago, legal experts say.

money can't buy his way out of jail

Roman Polanski was accused of plying a 13-year-old girl with champagne and part of a Quaalude during a modeling shoot in 1977 and raping her. He was initially indicted on six felony counts, including rape by use of drugs, child molesting and sodomy.

Vile: Goerge admitted during interviews that her crimes were 'disgusting'

Vanessa George, from Plymouth, admitted 13 charges, including sexual abuse of children and making and distributing indecent images of children.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.

Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

In the past decade, Rabbi Stanley Z. Levitt, 63, has faced similar charges here in Philadelphia.

A rabbi living in Northeast Philadelphia has been charged in Boston for allegedly sexually abusing two students at a day school there more than 30 years ago

Passaic NJ, September 26, 2009 – A Night Of Solidarity

"During these seven days you must live in sukkahs (thatched huts). . . .

This is so that future generations will know that I (G·d) had the Israelites live in sukkahs when I brought them out of Egypt." Leviticus 23:42,43

Wings And Prayers: By Rabbi Avi Shafran (the same man who excuses Orthodox Jewish pedophiles)

"As it happens, while a chicken is not injured or traumatized by being held and waved, there have indeed been situations where chickens, before or after the kaparos ceremony, have not been treated with the sensitivity to animals’ comfort that halachah mandates."

“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

faces of evil: Jesse Edward Laramee, left, and Jane Marie Marcy

According to the arrest report, the 7-year-old victim told investigators that Laramee made her perform oral sex and to have sexual intercourse. She told investigators that when she cried, he slapped her in the face and told her to shut up.

Donkeys of Lakewood and Brooklyn forced to look in the mirror.

September 12, 2009

Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood deals with sex abuse (by continuing to claim ignorance and telling more lies)

By ZACH PATBERGSTAFF WRITER

At some point, amid battling a drug addiction and childhood memories of molestation, Shua Finkelstein wrote a letter. Discovered on his computer after he died Feb. 28 from an overdose of pain killers, the letter admonished his Orthodox Jewish community...

"It is your duty as a Jew, as a human to find these people in our community and no longer let them live among us!!!" it read. On April 14, a few weeks after the letter became public online, the Finkelsteins' house was gutted by a fire while they were out of town for Passover. A police report cited arson as the likely cause. Authorities say they are still investigating.

President Barack Obama is really Jewish.

Lakeland Police Sergeant Gary Gross stated, “It actually turned my stomach last night listening in on the interview. I've been doing this for 21 years. It was to a point I actually walked off. I really couldn't take anymore of what this guy was doing to this child.”

(rabbi) shlomo mandel on his way to the bathroom at the 2009 agudah convention.

Child molester/abuser, Yehuda Nussbaum, still employed by Yeshiva of Brooklyn.

Case of Rabbi Yaakov Menken

In 2005 Rabbi Yaakov Menken had a discussion with Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky and confessed to having sexual contact with a very young woman he counseled. He basically blamed the survivor, stating "she came on to me".

Horace Skeete, charged with molestation of 9-year-old girl.

"These are false accusations," said a woman at day care facility who claimed to be Skeete's wife. "I know my husband would not do anything like that."

pure evil!

The arrest of registered sex offender Phillip Garrido has raised questions regarding how closely sex offenders are monitored in the U.S.

Why has the press ignored the case of Duke U. official arrested for child molestation?

Allegedly, on at least three occasions Lombard could be seen via webcam performing oral sex , and other sex acts on his adopted 5-year-old son. Apparently, Lombard had allowed other individuals to molest the child as well.

Retired engineer Jack Louis Sporich, 74, was classified

as one of California's most dangerous sex offenders in the 1990s, when he spent nine years in prison for molesting more than 500 young boys since the 1960s, MyFOXPhoenix reported.

An Upstate New York rabbi is accused of molesting two boys.

Yaakov Weiss, who teaches in Albany, appeared in court to answer to charges that he had inappropriate sexual contact with two of his male students, both 13 years old.

In both cases, June, the indictment alleged, Weiss had sexual contact "consisting of placing his penis in contact with said child's buttocks." It allegedly took place inside a pool known religiously as a mikveh, according to his attorney.

Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu was hospitalized on Monday after losing consciousness for several minutes.

His family, including his son Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the Chief Rabbi of Tzfat (Safed), asks that the public pray for his health (Rav Mordechai Tzemach ben [son of] Mazal).

looks can be deceiving.

A JURY has sentenced a Texas mother convicted of mutilating her infant by cutting off his genitals to 99 years in prison.

Former soccer coach found guilty on all molestation charges

David Durling testified Wednesday in Woodbury that he never had any sexual contact with boys.

Miller is described as a 33-year-old white male. He is 6'2" tall and weighs 200 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes. Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for any information called in to the 713-222-8477 (TIPS) hotline or submitted online at www.crime-stoppers.org that leads to the arrest of Miller. All tipsters remain anonymous.

you can run but you can't hide!

Convicted molester Michael Stephens spent the past 14 years on the run in California and Mexico. Now he will spend the next 20 years in prison.

Does the Old Testament foster corruption?

Click on image to read this fascinating article.

Parents Severely Beat Alleged Child Molester

Terry Gibbs, 54, Has Heart Attack After Beating. Gibbs told officers he had been beaten because he had sexually assaulted three children, all under 10 years old, to whom he is related.

5 rabbis arrested in corruption scam

The rabbis were charged with laundering tens of millions of dollars through charities in the US and Israel. Another Jewish suspect was accused of selling Israeli donors' kidneys for up to $160,000.

Is this justice? Stefan Colmer can get out of jail this year

Colmer was arraigned in January 2008 on 35 counts of sex crimes, stemming from charges that he sodomized a 12- and 13-year-old boy in his Midwood home in 2006.

Supporters of the Markey bill point to Lopez as the architect of the bill’s downfall.

“It’s sad, but by no means are we going to stop,” Diangelo said as he protested outside the office of Assemblyman Vito Lopez, a Brooklyn Democrat who played the most visible role in blocking the sex-abuse bill in the Assembly.

The deal involving Stefan Colmer, once a member of Midwood’s Orthodox community, is raising questions about the handling of his case and its impact on future victims’ willingness to come forward to law enforcement officials, according to observers.

Silence is the Enemy:

Attention pedophiles of color:

The Novominsker Tush - Shtick Drek Liar

“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”

1 in 5 children in america is a victim of childhood sexual abuse

SUPPORT THE CHILD VICTIMS' ACT OF NEW YORK. ASSEMBLY BILL NUMBER A.2596

Rabbinical Donkeys will burn in hell for this.

Joel Engelman, pictured as a child, and Tamir Weissberg said they were victims of sexual abuse by members of the Orthodox Jewish community. They said they were told not to discuss the alleged abuse.

Avi Shafran has a new neighbor.

Luis Villanueva, 39, is charged with failing to notify authorities that he moved from Brooklyn to Staten Island. He was convicted in 1994 of raping an 8-year-old girl, he's suspected of sexually assaulting an adult male, and now, police say, he's come to Staten Island.

One could envision a scenario in which a senior citizen

might choose to bring a claim against a school for an incident that allegedly occurred over half-a-century ago when the claimant was a child.

Tempest in the Temple: by Amy Neustein (Editor)

He took the boy with him from New York City to Nanuet, where Katz’s mother resided, on many occasions and had sex with him there. Victim testified that he had attempted to kill himself as a result of the abuse he endured.

Assemblywoman Margaret M. Markey 30th Assembly District

My bill – A.4560B, the Child Victims Act of New York – will provide the opportunity for victims who were shut off from justice to receive their day in court.

Noted Jewish community activist Meir (Mark) Appel made a passionate appeal to the frum community

to rally behind a controversial new sexual abuse bill to be proposed in Albany. Click on image above.

Upcoming Events: Sunday, March 22nd - Program to Stop Abuse

The Jewish Board of Advocates for Children, Inc. (JBAC) is a new non-profit corporation founded in New York State in 2008.

State Senator Thomas K. Duane

is the sponsor of a bill that would suspend the statute of limitations on abuse claims.

“Impossible situations can become possible miracles.”

“And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.”

In the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on its thirteenth day ...

on the day that the enemies of the Jews were expected to prevail over them, it was turned about: the Jews prevailed over their adversaries. - Esther 9:1

"Rabbi" Lippy Margulies thought his purim costume

and shlomo mandel's will scare the children more than anything.

"Rabbi" Shlomo 'Crocodile Tears' Mandel

shows off his purim costume this year.

This gorilla did not appreciate Avi Shafran's disgenuous remarks

"And if it serves to, without inappropriate finger-pointing and conspiracy-theorizing, raise awareness of a threat to our children and promote the effective addressing of a terrible societal problem, all the more so."

this is how lipa margulies looks

after he was abducted by aliens

"The Jetsons" are back!

The electric version has a 100 mile range per charge and can be recharged by plugging into a regular electric outlet.

Free Gilad Shalit blog - Click on picture to be taken there.

Paul Amenson - An elementary school janitor and recess supervisor

will spend five years in prison and 45 years on supervision for molesting students. Brown County Circuit Court Judge Kendall Kelley said Friday he considered Amenson at extreme high risk of re-offending.

Future Gadol Hador

at the Rabbinical zoo

Campaign posters for Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, top, and his rival,

Israel's Foreign Minister and Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni, bottom, are seen in Jerusalem

Adam and Ben Steed were sexually abused by their then-Scout Leader, Brad Stowell in 1997.

"What worries me is the ability of sex offenders to plea bargain their way out of harsher sentences. Plea bargains would only result in injury to a child," said Steed.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver - this fraud protects sex abusers

Elizabeth Crothers told the News, "I see it as the only opportunity to bring real reform to New York and to unseat one of the worst leaders in the state and quite possibly in the nation."

Sexually Violent Child Molester May Be Released In East County

Mathew Harvey Hedge, a sexually violent child sex offender, may SOON be calling the town of Ramona his brand new HOME. He is a dangerous REPEAT OFFENDER; scurge of the earth that should never again see the light of day.

Robert Blue to plead guilty to one count of child abuse and neglect with substantial mental injury

"She (his 14 year old daughter) was indeed chained to her bed and shackled by her right ankle," the report states, noting that she was found "emotionally distraught and crying uncontrollably." "He's not a monster," one of the rabbis said outside court. "He's a human being."

Rabbi David Niederman heads the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg- enables sex abuse

"To me, it does not make sense," says Niederman, of the United Jewish Organizations, "that so many people have been violated and for so many years they have been quiet. Something does not add up. It's being blown out of proportion — big time."

Baltimore Man Arrested for Molesting Girl, 7

David Milton Wilson, 51, of the 7200 block of Shipway allegedly abused the girl since 2006. Police believe there may be other victims and are asking anyone who may be a victim to contact the department's Crimes Against Children Unit at 410-853-3650.

Homer Clark Steele Jr. molesting children for 5 decades

Police said he confided to investigators that there may be other molestation victims from Marshall, Pasadena and Houston dating all the way back to the 1960s.

molested a boy who had been in his care from the age of five

Police say 69-year-old Homer Clark Steele, Jr. is accused of molesting one child at the Pasadena apartment complex where he lives.

“Don't point that beard at me, it might go off”

“Wisdom is in the head and not in the beard”

Courtney Love’s anti-Semitic views have been revealed

“Every time you buy a Nirvana record, part of that money is not going to Kurt's child, or to me, it's going to a handful of Jew loan officers, Jew private banks, it's going to lawyers who are also bankers . . .”

THIS IDIOT BELIEVES IN NEGOTIATING WITH TERRORISTS

“I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.” ~~~Joel Rosenberg ~~~

Israel at war - Watch world's reactions to Israeli airstrikes

Chanukah 2008 starts on the sunset of Sunday, the 21st of December.

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” ~~ Helen Keller ~~

Money, money, money Must be funny In the rich mans world

Money, money, money Always sunny In the rich mans world Aha-ahaaa All the things I could do If I had a little money Its a rich mans world

murder and decapitation of a six-year-old boy 27 years ago solved

The case radically affected police procedures over missing children and inspired the TV show "America's Most Wanted", presented by Adam's father.

Hanukah, the Festival of Lights

Rabbi Yacov Borenstein thought the battle to site a large electrical menorah was over when Acting Supreme Court Justice James Pagones last week approved placing it at the corner of Main and Market streets in Poughkeepsie. The city wanted it placed in a lot one block in on Main Street along with a Christmas tree.

Deborah and her husband Heath attempted to by a birthday cake for their son at a near by ShopRite supermarket in Greenwich, N.J. and were told that the store would not inscribe Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler on the cake.

Avi urges all poets to strip naked and shower immediatley.

"A great poet might opt to not shower," Shafran said, "but that bad habit doesn't necessarily affect the quality of his writing."

Mourners pray over bodies of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife,

during their funeral procession in Kfar Chabad near Tel Aviv, 02 Dec 2008

Rivka Holtzberg, wife of Gavriel, also murdered in Mumbai

Corinne Marlen - Rivki told me "when you have faith, you believe that G-d puts challenges in front of you, and tests your faith, sometimes you may not understand why things happen but that does not mean you should lose faith..."

Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, left, was the co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, India

he was slain in cold blood. May G-D avenge his blood.

Click on link. YWN has all the photos of the Skvere Rebbe's visit to YOB

outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on Saturday night, to press for action to gain their release.

Arieh Yerushalmi will evaluate public and private places where you can display CHOMETZ

He explained his decision to strip despite his religious values, saying that "this is why I left the sock on, that's what I didn’t care. Sometimes one has to shout – the shame was not mine, but the other people's."

YEHUDA FRIEDLANDER

Non-NYS Felony Sex Offense Victim: Female, 15 Years

Rabbi Jerry Brauner (AKA: Yechiel Brauner)

Convicted on the charges of Sexual Abuse-1st Degree of a 15 year old boy.

Jimmy Adolf Carter speaking words

of encouragement to Hamas terrorists.

Kosher L'Pesach 24 hour tea room extravaganza

at your favorite pesach hotel featuring real passover french bread.

Aaron Shlechter the ape

making an obscene gesture!

WANTED: Police seek extradition of rabbi from Canada

Rabbi Elior Chen and his followers are suspected of severely abusing two children, aged 3 and 4, who were savagely and systematically beaten with hammers, knives and other instruments for months until the younger child lost consciousness last month..

Child Molester Yehuda Nussbaum

showing off his new tattoos.

Mordy Tendler on his wedding day

grabbing the butt cheek of another woman.

Lipa Margulies displayed

in "BODIES" Exhibition

Aaron Schechter approved wigs

all other shaitels must be burned.

Avi Shafran and Agudath Israel are encouraging

every Rabbi to own one of these!

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

Malka Leifer accused of sexually molesting girls age 15 and 16

Outraged parents claim that the Adass Israel Girls' School in Elsternwick paid for Malka Leifer, a mother of eight, to return to Israel before reporting the complaints to the police.

Ephraim Wachsman on Purim -

was employed by Kolko in Camp Ma-Na-Vu

Aaron Schechter will sign off on sending

your problem child to Tranquility Bay

I'm going to squeeze every last

ounce of votes out of the Jewish communities.

What do you do when a drunk wants

some of the Rebbe's blessed wine?

Donate to Oorah - Con Artists

A scam approved by the "gedolim"

Yaakov Perlow celebrating

his Bar Mitzvah as a yuchid.

pick one up at the

next agudah convention

Listen to Rabbi Meir Kahane H'YD

and expel the Arabs from our land!

I ban you from going

to the Lipa Shmeltzer concert.

Oorah and Kars-4-kids are asking yeshiva bochurim to collect money this Purim

from all the rich gentiles. (receive this Avi Shafran costume for free)

Lepold Margulis showing off his purim costume

He chose watermelon, the color of blood.

Melaveh Malka around the pool. Bring your boys with you.

Special guest speaker - Yehuda Kolko

Collect for the Moetzes this Purim

and receive this free face mask.

"According to halacha, it is forbidden to employ Arabs, especially in yeshivas,"

OUR MISSION IS - PREVENTING ALL FORMS OF ABUSE AND CURRUPTION IN THE JEWISH WORLD AND BEYOND!!!

1. Tell Others The Facts

What are the first three facts you can tell others? Fact one: Today, 95 percent of child molestation can be prevented. We have the knowledge to stop it. Fact two: Today, living in the United States, there are 39 million adults who have survived child sexual abuse. Fact three: Today, more than three million American children are victims. Most of them are children, struggling alone, believing there is no adult who can help them. To help prevent child molestation from happening to the children closest to you, begin by telling others the basic facts.

(Child Molestation Research & Prevention Institute, Inc.)

http://www.childmolestationprevention.org

VICTIMS OF ABUSE - FEAR NOT - JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL!!!

'Rabbi' Shlomo Mandel enabled the sexual abuse of children by 'Rabbi' Yehuda Nussbaum

AND DID NOTHING TO STOP IT!

A new "special" cemetery for child molesters

and their enablers!

Tendler boy peeking underneath

for best view!

After getting caught red handed

Tendler kid gives photographer the finger!

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."

- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."

- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"He would make a lovely corpse."

- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

"My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate."

- Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court what his current profession was

After a little girl in Boro Park was abducted and sexually abused

NYPD Patrol the Jewish neighborhood looking for the perpetrator

Avrohm Mondrowitz can't believe it.

How can Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes double cross me, I thought we were friends?

Avrohm Mondrowitz looks very scared.

Was he worried about all the lives he destroyed? NO! This vicious pedophile should rot in prison for the rest of his miserable life!

I can't believe they're going after me now.

It's two decades later, why don't you people get over it already!

I'm an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Pedophile

Give me some respect!

I don't want to get raped in jail by another man.

At least arrange for me to have some young boys in my prison cell.

OUCH! Stop dragging me,

All this because I sexually assaulted dozens of boys. These guys want to teach me a lesson i'll never forget! I hate you all for doing this to me!

If only I had not molested...

Now look at me...

It's a lose-lose situation for Mondrowitz. He must face the sodomy and

other sex abuse charges. Loses his freedom and is separated from a family who supports him. Sad sight. Let justice take its course!

They deserve a standing ovation from all of us!

Activists against sex abuse in the Jewish community, from left, sociologist Amy Neustein, attorney Michael Lesher, and journalist Susan Rosenbluth, said they welcomed the arrest of alleged pedophile Avrohom Mondrowitz.

Our meat contains mad cow disease.

Our chickens come with the feathers and feces intact, yummy!

Our meat and poultry are not really kosher.

We believe in animal cruelty. We believe in violating as many laws as possible!

Pearls of wisdom!

Don't be a moron!

Yudi Kolko under arrest.

YTT and the Rabbis - gave me the green light to molest boys for over 4 decades!

Sex abuse survivor dreams of the day when

all the enablers of sexual abuse are brought to justice!

And I love yours!

Say Ahamad - Those Netuei Karta people are they Jewish?

Shlomo Mandel - I made it to the Agudah Convention

I'm the Rosh Yeshiva; Yeshiva Of Brooklyn - So what if Yehudah Nussbaum molested boys at my Yeshiva!

Baruch Atah Hashem.... That all the boys who were molested because of me

Should disappear under the rug along with all the other shmootz...

the rug in Matt Solomons living room!

Shlomo Mandel has a very similiar one in his home!

Sholmo Mandel sweeping under the rug.

He had his beard and payos chopped off and became a fryer yid!

Shlomo 'crocodile tears' Mandel bit off a lot more than just a forearm

He butchered the Torah and left a trail of abuse victims!

Shtait in de hailke gemorrah

chayah ruahs nikrah adam!

Child molestation is a growing problem in the United States.

Each year thousands of children are sexually abused by sexual predators.

Don't forget to daven mincha.

You can go back to stealing afterwards.

My dusty hat is being steamed cleaned.

Frum Jews molesting children? I have no comment.

Rav Shach ztvk'l

A True Tzadik!

True Gadol Hador

Elazar Menachem Man Shach (אלעזר מנחם מן שך)

Happy is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,

nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scorners.

But whose delight is in the Torah of the Lord;

and in his Torah he meditates day and night.

Listen World

Listen Jew!

Kahane was right all along.

The Arabs do not want peace with Israel!

He was killed for standing up against our enemies and speaking the truth

Hashem Yikom Damam!

Beaavat Yisrael

Harav Meir Kahane Zt'l

Until Techiyat Amethim

Farewell Hero, Farewell Patriot.

Reb Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz Zt'l

Ignited the flames of True Torah Judiasim!

Lipa Marguelis posing at the agudah podium

I repeat: Yeshiva Torah Temima had no idea about Yudi Kolko

teach your children to report unwanted touch

Emphasize that they shouldn't be ashamed to tell you about it.

Some Rabbis may not seem as scary as this tiger

But they have proven themselves to be just as deadly!

No! I'm telling you I was at the bris

And I assure you I did not see any penetration

He who saves one life

It is considered as if he has saved the entire world!

Shevach Monsey, Rubashkins, Yisroel P.Gornish

How are we ever going to end up Glatt Kosher?

We don't want to suffer any pain.

Please don't load us on a truck to Postville Iowa

I'm issuing a Hazmonah on behalf of Yeshiva Torah Temimah

For Motzei Shem Rah against Margo & Kolko

Spinka Rabbi with Rabbi Stein

Gelt vil kimen. The reshuim ich zugzte..

OY VEY! We try not to cause a Chilul Hashem

If it wasn't for the government informant there would be none.

YOB Victims. Please come down to the station

and file a complaint with us. We are investigating abuse.

Any allegations of abuse by Yeshivah Of Brooklyn

Should be reported by dialing 911 or going down to the Police Station.

The gedolim forbid using the evil internet

Unless it is for business purposes only!

The Holy Torah says 'lo samod al dam re'echa'

I'm a gadol who doesn't hold by it!

Avi Shafran is a weasel

Blogosphere & Jewish world know a fraud when they hear one!

PR Agudas Israel Avi Shafran's office

Delivering a message to the pope has never been more fun!

Tzar Balei Chaim

by the Rubashkins

Like good ol' times

Peres, Bush, Olmert.

A real friend is one who walks in

when the rest of the world walks out...

Is Bush watching some Arabs doing shiluach hakan?

Actually, they are getting ready for a bird dinner.

I'll sell you the brooklyn bridge.

Ain't that a good deal!

Phew! It stinks! All this drek and chara

is making the neighborhood smell disgusting!

A child molestation accusation led one woman to slit her

husband's throat, and both of them are facing charges.

I'm a noted gadol and speaker on all topics regarding children and yiras shomayim

but i'm starting to get the feeling that people know about the big pile of dirt under my living room rug!

"Rabbi" Avraham M. Leizerowitz

A child molester on the run!

Why is he fighting the extradition of Mondrowitz?

Because he is a tush and a putz!

Hagoan Harav Shmuel Berenbaum Z'tvkl

Torah (תּוֹרָה) * Genesis (בראשית, Bereshit: "In the beginning...")

cow demonstrating against animal cruelty

at the entrance to the Rubashkins Slaughterhouse

The next gedolim psak

a yid can ride a bus with the same gender only!

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”

Albert Einstein quote

Rabbi Lippy Margulis by the podium

Striking his best pose at the Agudah Convention!

What happened to Avi Shafran?

It seems his face has been rearranged.

This Viduy is so easy even an IDIOT can read it

for complete IDIOTS only.

Poor Poor Rabbi Shlomo Mandel

What happened to the beard, payos, and the yarmulkah shlomy? looks like he's gone totally senile!

Bless me father for I have sinned.

Pope John Paul II blessing Father Marcial Maciel (now deceased) who is accused of sexually abusing former priests in training.

Yudi Kolko - Are you out of your kishkes?

What were you thinking loading all of that wood for your new treehouse on your junky plymouth roof?

Rabbi Yisroel Belsky under his bed in his latest stress therapy tryout

where you see he dresses up as the evil clown in preparation for the Halloween and Purim festivals.

Rubashkins chemical waste is up in flames

look at all those toxic chemical waste barrels dumped on the citizens of New York.

Rabbi Milton Balkany on his way home from work when suddenly all hell broke loose.

rescue teams are still searching for his head.

The new "kosher" phone. Don't leave home without it.

The ketanim are asking the klal to stay away from non-kosher cell phones.

The woods in Camp Agudah where

Yudi Kolko molested some boys

Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. Why is my salad so crunchy?

Beause the LE MARAIS' CHEF snuck some beetles in there.

The car advertisment in the Belsky advertising campaign to

lure married people into divorce and giving him their business.

Yudi Kolko's custom made donkey's rear end

Don’t be afraid to ring the doorbell. Please, just press it at least once.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak

are an embarrassment to Israel and Jews. Currupt 'leadership' is a crime!

Israeli Protester throws remains of a Rocket

that was fired at them by Hamas Terrorists.

Wait a minute Hillary, You can't fool me.

No you wait a minute Barack Obama. I'm your senior, You remember that.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself - Lois McMaster Bujold

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character - Oscar Levant

Atrist sketch of the fraudster from Baltimore

the big cheese of Kashrut and enabler of abuse!

President George Bush dressing up as a muslim

and trying to infiltrate Al-Quaida in Pakistan.

Those menuvel Rabbis are always welcome

to come work for us you know. Belsky & Byrks get first dibs.

The butchers of Jewish neshamas

will one day end up looking like this after the worms and insects are done with it.

Reb Aaron Shechter: This is prust.. Si Pas nisht fe ayid!

If they made this with a male behind I wouldn't mind as much.

Who said the Rubashkins were cruel? Sholom Rubashkin is seen in this undated photo

walking a sad chicken around the slaughterhouse before the shechita.

Rabbi Avi Shafran celebrating his birthday in style.

Only two years old and already showing signs of being very wise!

Yehudah Nussbaum and Shlomo Mandel

drinking beer in the park as kids.

Aaron Twerski: These are some honorable gedolim.

Torah Issues delivered to your doorstep.

Hillary Clinton planting a kiss on the

cheek of the terrorists wife. Real nice couple they make!

The currupt Rabbonim are

leading a sinking ship!

Tzipi Livni will deliver a peacful speech

about Osama Bin Laden possibly joining forces with the U.S. Army

DIRE WARNING! We heard the news and our souls are TREMBLING!!!!!

There will be a concert taking place in the city of Manhattan in Madison Square Garden...there will be singers from a fringe element of Judaism...

Shlomo the Putz Mandel

was always a bad boy. Today he's a bad man!

Moshe Aryeh Friedman with his children

picking up an endorsement from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran; for "biggest dweeb."

Mohammed Hamid aka Osama bin LONDON

requested that child molester enablers be sent to him. " I will fix your problem" he promised.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience.

Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Rabbi Yisroel Belsky's love child.

DNA results confirm he is the father.

I'm just a jackass!

“If people think I’m a monster just because I’m representing a monster, then there’s a flaw with the system,” says Jeffrey Schwartz.

Lipa Margulies was spotted

walking the streets on Purim.

24 Hour Crisis Line: (812) 336-0846

Sexual Abuse Facts

Rape is not motivated by lust or sexual desire. Rape is an expression of power or anger.

The effects of date rape drugs are enhanced by alcohol which can also impair your judgment and ability to respond.

Rape can happen in the context of marriage or a committed relationship.

Every 41 seconds a woman is raped in the United States.

50 % of the victims are 12-24 years of age.

60-80 % of women who are raped know their attackers.

57 % of rapes occur on a date and 60 % of sexual assaults occur in homes.

One in 10 men is raped in his lifetime.

If you were raped:

Seek help immediately

Remember, it is not your fault

Do not wash, change, shower or douche before going to the hospital

Protect Yourself Against Rape:

Watch your drink:

Keep an eye on your drink at all times

Only take drinks from a bartender or waitress

Watch out for each other:

Never leave a friend who is drunk alone

Communicate before a party that you will look out for each other's safety

If you start to feel sick or strange, tell a friend immediately! Date rape drugs can take effect in as little as 15 minutes. Trust your instincts! If you feel something is wrong, it probably is. Don't be afraid to make a scene and stand up for yourself. This could be the difference between life and death.

If you have any questions about sexual assault or need to talk about what has happened to you or a friend, call our 24-hour crisis line at (812) 336-0846.

Among victims of sexual abuse, the inability to trust is pronounced, which also contributes to secrecy and non-disclosure.Source: Courtois & Watts, 1982.

Children often fail to report because of the fear that disclosure will bring consequences even worse than being victimized again. The victim may fear consequences from the family, feel guilty for consequences to the perpetrator, and may fear subsequent retaliatory actions from the perpetrator.Sources: Berlinger & Barbieri, 1984; Groth, 1979; Swanson & Biaggio, 1985.

Victims may be embarrassed or reluctant to answer questions about the sexual activity.Source: Berlinger & Barbieri, 1984.

Victims may also have a feeling that "something is wrong with me," and that the abuse is their fault.Sources: Johnson, 1987; Tsai & Wagner, l978.

In addition to "sexual guilt," there are several other types of guilt associated with the abuse, which include feeling different from peers, harboring vengeful and angry feelings toward both parents, feeling responsible for the abuse, feeling guilty about reporting the abuse, and bringing disloyalty and disruption to the family . Any of these feelings of guilt could outweigh the decision of the victim to report, the result of which is the secret may remain intact and undisclosed.Source: Courtois & Watts, 1982; Tsai & Wagner, l978.

A child's initial denial of sexual abuse should not be the sole basis of reassurance that abuse did not occur. Virtually all investigative protocols are designed to respond to only those children who have disclosed. Policies and procedures that are geared only to those children who have disclosed fail to recognize the needs of the majority of victims.Source: Sorensen & Snow, 1991.

Study of 630 cases of alleged sexual abuse of children from 1985 through 1989: Using a subset of 116 confirmed cases, findings indicated that 79 percent of the children of the study initially denied abuse or were tentative in disclosing. Of those who did disclose, approximately three-quarters disclosed accidentally. Additionally, of those who did disclose, 22 percent eventually recanted their statements.Source: Sorensen & Snow, 1991.

Young victims may not recognize their victimization as sexual abuse.Source: Gilbert, l988.

There is the clinical assumption that children who feel compelled to keep sexual abuse a secret suffer greater psychic distress than victims who disclose the secret and receive assistance and support.Source: Finkelhor & Browne, 1986.

Early identification of sexual abuse victims appears to be crucial to the reduction of suffering of abused youth and to the establishment of support systems for assistance in pursuing appropriate psychological development and healthier adult functioning . As long as disclosure continues to be a problem for young victims, then fear, suffering, and psychological distress will, like the secret, remain with the victim.Sources: Bagley, 1992; Bagley, 1991; Finkelhor et al. 1990; Whitlock & Gillman, 1989.>

This 21-year-old man is accused of molesting his ex-girlfriend’s daughter

suspected sexual offender -- who is accused of assaulting a teenage girl. Police say they believe there could be more victims.

Yudi Kolko taking his first graders

on a school trip to watch the show.

Young Israel of Scarsdale Rabbi Jacob S. Rubenstein and his wife Deborah died in a fatal fire

Rubenstein, 58, was a prominent rabbi in the world of modern Orthodox Judaism. From 1997 to 1999, he served as president of the Rabbinical Council of America, the largest group of Orthodox rabbis in the country.

Mazal Tov to Edner Parker

She is 115 years old.

( A look into the future) A crystal skull belonging to "Rabbi" Yaakov Mandel the sadist

X-RAYS and DNA sampings have confirmed he is indeed a sick putz just like his older brother shloime.

416 children taken from a polygamist sect

amid allegations of widespread sexual and physical abuse

charged with official misconduct and sex abuse for alleged relationships with two female students

Mount Angel police say the 35-year-old Molan had a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old and a 14-year-old.

Father John Benedict Corrigan, 71

pleaded guilty to seven counts of indecent assault on boys aged between eight and 13, between 1967 and 1972.

Leopard -This cat, in its melanistic color phase, is often mistakenly referred to

as a black panther.This species has been (and is still) illegally hunted throughout its range for sport, and for its fur.

only the strong survive

A Chinese man carrying his mother on his back in a basket takes a rest on a fallen rock following Monday's powerful earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan province

Software engineer Rex Jameson stretches in a robotic soldier suit being made for the U.S. Army

The suit can multiply its wearer's strength and endurance as many as 20 times, with relatively little loss of agility

At the Agudah Convention men's bathroom

"Need Toilet Paper " scrawled on the wall. That's one way to get the cleaning staff's attention.

pandas eat food at the China Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center

Three of ten pandas that went missing after the May 12 earthquake have not been found.

casualties of Rabbinical corruption demand to know...

Why have you failed us so???

Your Opportunity To Save Children

Just like this one has arrived

Child Molestation and Public Health

Is child molestation a public health problem? It qualifies on two counts: damage to health and numbers of victims. Sexually abusing a child endangers that child's physical and emotional health. And, unfortunately, the number of victimized children is in the millions.